Charles M. Schulz Quotes

I'd rather play a double-header than speak at a banquet, and if I went to Wrigley Field knowing I had to be somewhere two hours after the game, it would bother me all day.

The emotions can take you out of a game.

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for it to stop, and the team's manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he's already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, 'If you screw this up, they will boo you.' And I said 'Thanks.'

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

As you know, I'm not on SnapFace and all that, so I don't really get those. I'm really just worried about getting our team ready to go.

When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.

Whenever you see me and I'm hitting ground ball after ground ball, you know I'm not feeling right.

I overthink everything, and one thing I find difficult is to actually be in the moment.

I'll worry about something and get stressed whereas Ant is usually a bit more chilled about things.

Worry divides the mind.

I'm a worrier by nature. My husband says that if I'm not worried about something, I'm worried about what I've forgotten to be worried about.

I can worry about anything.

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets - He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting- And the need to win drains him of power.