Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
W. P. Kinsella
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
W. P. Kinsella
Age: 81 †
Born: 1935
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
Described
Bottles
Baseball
Game
Softball
Games
Pitching
Someone
Lighting
Like
Bottle
Catching
More quotes by W. P. Kinsella
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
W. P. Kinsella
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.
W. P. Kinsella
[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.
W. P. Kinsella
Have never been a minor league fan.
W. P. Kinsella
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
W. P. Kinsella
I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.
W. P. Kinsella
Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
W. P. Kinsella
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
W. P. Kinsella
If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
W. P. Kinsella
[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
W. P. Kinsella
Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
W. P. Kinsella
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.
W. P. Kinsella
Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
W. P. Kinsella
The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
W. P. Kinsella
America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
W. P. Kinsella
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
W. P. Kinsella
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. Kinsella
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
W. P. Kinsella
After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.
W. P. Kinsella
Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
W. P. Kinsella