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"The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball."
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"In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand."
"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."
"Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself."
"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
"Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place."
"Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar"."
"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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"I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous."
"After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided."
"The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too."
"I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?"
"I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing."
"What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat."
"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"
"I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats."
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