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"You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book."
Ambition
"I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?"
Blame
"Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book."
Affection
"There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic."
Statistics
"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
Baseball
"The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons."
American
"The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom."
Sports
"There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy."
God
"Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work."
Work
"In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation."
Love
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"Football said,"Why I am not a cricket ball to get a shot from Sachin"."
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"Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar"."
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Personal Development
"Sachin is passionate for cricket and fame is passionate for Sachin."
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Personal Development
"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
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"Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent."
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"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
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"Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."
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"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
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"Sports for me is: S for Skill, P for Perseverance, O for Optimism, R for Resilience, T for Tenacity, S for Stamina"
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"Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing."
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