Quotes
Quotes about Man
With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?
I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on Tiger's short game and there'll be nothing. He's already pretty darn imposing.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes)
They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.
It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. (after his team had defeated Whitman 70-30)
I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him
You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.
I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.
The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
