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Roger Angell Quotes

Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all Picture Quote #1

The best defense against partisanship is expertise Picture Quote #1

I knew I wasn’t a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn’t want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it Picture Quote #1

Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes Picture Quote #1

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they’re basically overlooked Picture Quote #1

I’ve been lucky. I’ve met a lot of baseball people, and I’ve learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs Picture Quote #1

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Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time Picture Quote #1

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can’t remember Picture Quote #1

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought Picture Quote #1

I knew I wasn’t a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn’t want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it Picture Quote #1

Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young Picture Quote #1

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around Picture Quote #1

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Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way Picture Quote #1

What the dead don’t know piles up, though we don’t notice it at first. They don’t know how we’re getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don’t know that we don’t want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don’t want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind Picture Quote #1

I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be Picture Quote #1

What really makes baseball so hard is it’s retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game Picture Quote #1

Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps Picture Quote #1

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Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all (Roger Angell Quotes) The best defense against partisanship is expertise (Roger Angell Quotes) I knew I wasn’t a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn’t want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it. (Roger Angell Quotes) Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes (Roger Angell Quotes) The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they’re basically overlooked (Roger Angell Quotes) I’ve been lucky. I’ve met a lot of baseball people, and I’ve learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs (Roger Angell Quotes) Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time (Roger Angell Quotes) I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can’t remember (Roger Angell Quotes) We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought (Roger Angell Quotes) I knew I wasn’t a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn’t want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it (Roger Angell Quotes) Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young (Roger Angell Quotes) Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around (Roger Angell Quotes) Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way (Roger Angell Quotes) What the dead don’t know piles up, though we don’t notice it at first. They don’t know how we’re getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don’t know that we don’t want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don’t want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind (Roger Angell Quotes) I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be (Roger Angell Quotes) What really makes baseball so hard is it’s retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game (Roger Angell Quotes) Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps (Roger Angell Quotes)