#base

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#decency #lead #matters #race #should

Base souls have no faith in great individuals. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#faith #great #individuals #souls

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in. ↗

— Dwight Gooden

#get #give #like #loaded #never

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#admit #afraid #among #baseball #being

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels. ↗

— John Green

#basement #book #come #community #development

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#baseball #basketball #bottom #coverage #field

Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played. ↗

— Burleigh Grimes

#guys #i #interested #many #me

I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to. ↗

— Buddy Guy

#been #comfortable #divorce #five #get

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#before #came #career #fan #fan base

God watches over drunks and third baseman. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#drunks #god #over #third #watches