John Metcalf (John Metcalf) Quotes
Taken up with Hugh and Clark swapping baseball trivia. Clark often detailed yet another financial reversal. On the day he told us his house had burned down, we all, I think, accepted the news as somehow unexciting and inevitable.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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Baseball is a team game.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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It's fun; baseball's fun.
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In baseball, you don't know nothing.
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
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As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.
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There are some actors who see a show as something to do before going out.
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I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.
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Taken up with Hugh and Clark swapping baseball trivia. Clark often detailed yet another financial reversal. On the day he told us his house had burned down, we all, I think, accepted the news as somehow unexciting and inevitable.
