#bat

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#almost #being #combat #elements #even

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#because #celibate #clergy #especially #fanaticism

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#blockbuster #debating #film #i #maybe

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. ↗

— Sallust

#bravery #cowards #defense #most #rampart

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#current #debate #deprive #desperately #educational

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm. ↗

— Luke Scott

#baseball #bat #club #combat #golf

We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#become #debate #more #tired #tolerant

I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#belong #check #debate #debated #fame

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer. ↗

— George P. Shultz

#atmosphere #debate #debating #ever #gets

Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#american #american troops #battlefield #bay #been