Logo
Quote by John Thorn
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with A

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning. – John Thorn

Other quotes by John Thorn

Planning to play: thats what saving for retirement is today – and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death. – John Thorn

Category:
Death
Author
John Thorn
Read Quote

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not it smelled like death, not youth. – John Thorn

Category:
Death
Author
John Thorn
Read Quote

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. – John Thorn

Category:
Dreams
Author
John Thorn
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Hope
category

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. – Karl A. Menninger

Category:
Hope

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. – Pope John Paul II

Category:
Hope

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them. – Magic Johnson

Category:
Hope

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. – Hilaire Belloc

Category:
Hope

Random Quotes

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. – Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History

Category:
History

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Patriotism

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Loneliness

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. – Nelson Mandela

Category:
Wisdom