#ak

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes. ↗

— Bill Klem

#ball #completed #eye #fix #follow

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams. ↗

— Bill Klem

#blaming #cowardly #field #instead #manage

We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy? ↗

— Robert Lanza

#breakthroughs #bush #change #his #how

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee. ↗

— Fletcher Knebel

#committee #decision #find #makes #man

The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-kind-to-others #grace #heart #helping-others #inner-beauty

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#blood #bones #break #days #every

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. ↗

— David Knopfler

#formal #i #make #practitioner #religion

The river, tonally, does not recede, presenting the same lifeless grey near and far, a depthless plane upon which Schmitt’s dragging oars inscribe parallel lines and Eakins’ oars, rising and falling, leave methodically spaced patches of disturbed water. The canvas is haunting - en evocation of the democracy’s idyllic, isolating spaciousness, present even in the midst of a great Eastern city. ↗

— John Updike

#art #thomas-eakins #art

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#afraid #became #come #distance #excessive

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster. ↗

— Suge Knight

#character #faster #judge #make #much