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Thomas Boswell Quotes

Baseball means Spring’s Here. Football means Winter’s Coming Picture Quote #1

A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists Picture Quote #1

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech Â- a slightly elevated and concentrated form Picture Quote #1

When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. ItÃŠÂ¹s obsession at first sight Picture Quote #1

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle Picture Quote #1

Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it’s just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows Picture Quote #1

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Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game’s best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off Picture Quote #1

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it’s beginning to seem that way. We’re reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick Picture Quote #1

Baseball is religion without the mischief Picture Quote #1

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success Picture Quote #1

Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do Picture Quote #1

Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud Picture Quote #1

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Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods Picture Quote #1

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything Picture Quote #1

Cheating is baseball’s oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it Picture Quote #1

Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket Picture Quote #1

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal Picture Quote #1

When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It?s obsession at first sight Picture Quote #1

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I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don’t count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush Picture Quote #1

Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years Picture Quote #1

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Baseball means Spring’s Here. Football means Winter’s Coming (Thomas Boswell Quotes) A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech Â- a slightly elevated and concentrated form. (Thomas Boswell Quotes) When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. ItÃŠÂ¹s obsession at first sight. (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it’s just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game’s best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it’s beginning to seem that way. We’re reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Baseball is religion without the mischief (Thomas Boswell Quotes) There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods (Thomas Boswell Quotes) All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Cheating is baseball’s oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal (Thomas Boswell Quotes) When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It?s obsession at first sight (Thomas Boswell Quotes) I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don’t count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush (Thomas Boswell Quotes) Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years (Thomas Boswell Quotes)