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W P Kinsella Inspirational Quotes (53)

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1946, if my memory is correct. Harry The Cat Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio.
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Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.
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[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
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The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
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I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.
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I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.
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Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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Other people get into occupations by accident or design but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.
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The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
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I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
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He bats like a lightning rod.
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I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.
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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
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Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
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It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.
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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
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I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
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