Edward Abbey Quotes

Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.

I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

One of the many things I love about Daenerys from Game of Thrones is she's given me an opportunity to fly the flag for young girls and women, to be more than just somebody's wife and somebody's girlfriend.

However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless.

I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person.

I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.

Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.

The only way to consistently stay ahead of the game is to adopt a long-term view and, if appropriate, with a strong contrarian spin.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.

I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.

Certainly, if you can't manage your game, you can't play tournament golf. You continually have to ask yourself what club to play, where to aim it, whether to accept a safe par or to try to go for a birdie. You can't play every hole the same way. I never could.

I guess I'm the only guy old enough to figure him (Nolan Ryan, 1-Hitter Game in 1991) out.

The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

I really enjoy the experience of playing humans. The psychological game is so much more important.