#sports

I've fallen in love with baseball. ↗

— Nick Jonas

#humor #sports #humor

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game ↗

— Babe Ruth

#sports

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball. ↗

— Gloria Whelan

#imagination #organized-sports #play #recreation #sports

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out. ↗

— George Brett

#sports #funny

He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball. No. I really don’t. He assures me if I stay in town long enough I will become a baseball fan. It’s a requirement of living in St. Louis. Everyone is a Cardinal’s fan. “Loyal,” he tells me. St. Louis is a loyal town. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#cardinals #contemporary #gothic #historical-fiction #missouri

Discouraged? As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-baseline, I asked one of the boys what the score was. "We’re behind 14 to nothing,” he answered with a smile. “Really,” I said. “I have to say you don’t look very discouraged.” “Discouraged?” the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face. “Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t been up to bat yet. ↗

— Jack Canfield

#motivational #sports #home

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#sports #humor

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#golf #humor #sports #humor

Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys--either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right. ↗

— Eugene Mirman

#relationships #sports #humor

One keeps looking out for innovation in IPL, but of late it hasn't been all that obvious. Lionel Richie as an opening act? Johnny Mathis must have been busy. Matthew Hayden's Mongoose? Looks a bit like Bob Willis' bat with the "flow-through holes"; Saint Peter batting mitts are surely overdue a revival. The only genuinely intriguing step this year, bringing the IPL to YouTube, was forced on Modi by the collapse of Setanta; otherwise what Modi presents as 'innovation' is merely expansion by another name, in the number of franchises and the number of games. ↗

— Gideon Haigh

#cricket #expansion #indian-premier-league #innovation #johnny-mathis