Jim Thome Quotes

When I was a boy, it was paradise to go hunting with my father.

One of my great loves is golf. When I am in L.A., I like to play with a few close friends: no phones, no distractions, the great outdoors and the chance to bet some money to keep it interesting.

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

Who wouldn't want to go back home to play?

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

I was re-watching 'E.T.' recently, and that scene where they're all around the pizza, bringing the pizza in, and gambling and stuff together, it's such an amazing tone, it's so rough, and nobody's really talking about anything, and it feels like you're in that room with them.

I love the smell of skunks. Driving down a back road and you smell a skunk that's sprayed or been hit. I love that. It reminds me of home.

If I went on vacation, I'd rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel... My friends treat me the same at home. They just want to sit down with you and have a beer.

I miss hunting and when I go home I always find an opportunity to go for a hunt again, out in the bush veldt.

I am still the same village girl from Dhing who used to help my father in the paddy field, help mother in household chores, run for hours on the streets of Dhing, play football with my Mon Jai group friends.

Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.

I still think I'm playing back home in the street in my town with my mates. That's why I love the game, and mostly, I don't pay too much attention to social media or look at stuff that's out there.

My favorite thing to do in the summer was to sleep out in the forest on the farm I grew up on.

I really miss Syracuse and the guys on the team.

And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle— And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.

As a youngster, I really enjoyed watching cricket.

My memories from childhood always involve a football.

I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.

I've got nothing but very fond memories of my time in Carolina, both at the Panthers and in the community with the friends we made, our experiences and vacations we took.

I used to play baseball with Jake Owen when I was a kid.

There's something about playing in junior and being with your buddies all the time and going through that run, it's hard not to fall in love with it.

I'll definitely play cricket again, but only socially. I've still got a lot of friends at my local team, Green Mount, and I do miss playing, but I don't regret anything.

I always say I'm not going to work: I'm going to play with my friends.

I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours.