"Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

James Madison, American President

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"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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"One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"Explorers have to be ready to die lost."

Russell Hoban, American Novelist

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"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

Elizabeth Hardwick, American Critic

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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

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"On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again."

Race

"Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit."

Reading

"I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them."

Time

"I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice."

Practice

"I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him."

Home

"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat."

Work

"I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face."

Nothing

"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting."

Power

"I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it."

Life

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."

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