Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack. – Adam Morrow, quoted in Bill Simmons, “Letters from the Nation,” 20 October 2003 Category: Baseball
Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring. – Jerry Izenberg Category: Baseball
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless…. In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. – Neville Cardus, Cardus on the Ashes, 1989 Category: Baseball
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice. – Casey Stengel, 1967 Category: Baseball
The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. – Oprah Winfrey Category: Life
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Category: Mind, the
I read the book of Job last night, I dont think God comes out well in it. – Virginia Woolf Category: God
