#base

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. ↗

— Willie Mays

#basketball #because #black #college #could

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did. ↗

— Willie Mays

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #be yourself #business

I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game. ↗

— Willie Mays

#baseball #baseball game #become #could #down

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more. ↗

— Brian McBride

#because #between #came #deciding #down

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment. ↗

— Kate Millett

#based #becoming #capital #capital punishment #country

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans. ↗

— Henry Chadwick

#base #before #game #i #idea

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. ↗

— George McGovern

#campaign #gulf #i #opposition #persian

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. ↗

— Claude McKay

#based #castle #foundation #idealism #like

Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option. ↗

— Timothy McVeigh

#action #based #government #i #my own

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#awareness #based #beings #compassion #idea