Al Spalding Quotes

I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you don't start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

Honestly, I'm not a big fan of baseball.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

I've seen people, where if they have to wait around the set for three hours, and they call you at the wrong time, and they're not ready for you, some people don't like that.

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

I play rec softball sort of religiously. I'm a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City, I'd go to a Yankees game every week.

They made a three-hour 'Raw,' but two hours is about my time limit. I ain't got that kind of attention span.

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

I am an incredibly impatient person.

I've already had to wait so long." "How long?" Luce asked. "Not so long that I've forgotten that you're worth everything. Every sacrifice. Every pain.

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.