Roger Angell Quotes

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

If I'm making consistent contact, even if they're outs or right at somebody, if I'm just making consistent contact, I'm happy.

When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.

Today I am the greatest of all time.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

Some grow young, some grow cold...

For those who love... time is eternity.

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.

May you stay Forever Young

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.

When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Never is an awfully long time.

We must be young to do great things.

A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.

Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.