Top 1200 Baseball History Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.

The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history that will support their ideological imperialism, still use the same techniques for distorting the reality of history as their Sumerian predecessors?

The book I'm working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it.

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being left out which most marks the spirit and life of the person. My own thesis is complementary: science taught ... without a sense of history is robbed of those very qualities that make it worth teaching to the student of the humanities and the social sciences.

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance.

I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of.

I was better at baseball, but I really loved football.

I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

My introduction to sports was through baseball. That's all I knew.

In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

In baseball, you're always moving people around.

Never drew a paycheck outside of baseball.

If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

When you’ve had children, your body changes; there’s history to it. I like the evolution of that history; I’m fortunate to be with somebody who likes the evolution of that history. I think it’s important to not eradicate it. I look at someone’s face and I see the work before I see the person... You’re certainly not staving off the inevitable. And if you’re doing it out of fear, that fear’s still going to be seen through your eyes. The windows to your soul, they say.

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

There is no history of artthere is the history of artists.

Black history is American history.

I'm an expert at killing time on planes now. I do a lot of reading. My secret sort of nerdy side is I'm quite into history so I read a lot of history books. Now I write for a few things and I've had a few history things published, which is cool. I indulge my nerdy side and it's kind of as far away as you can get from the acting world so that's nice as well.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Baseball was the escape. I played all throughout my childhood.

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.

[Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history.

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.

If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

The one challenge you have when you're going back into history is that people, unlike with today's news - we think we know what's happened already - we think that it's history and therefore less interesting.

I always knew I could make it in baseball.

The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

When you have good baseball players, you have a chance to win. And when you don't, you don't.

I live for baseball. That's how I grew up.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

Statues of sports stars are all the rage - especially in baseball.

First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups.

I wasn't raised inside of Canadian baseball really.

That's what baseball is all about right there, a matter of will.

I won F4, and I won F3 - F3 by, I believe, the biggest margin in history and as one of the youngest drivers in history. I'm just pointing out facts. I'm not bragging or anything.

Every life lesson is on that baseball field.

The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

Baseball has been very good to me.

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.

Tennis obviously isn't as popular as baseball in the States.