Lefty Grove quotes

Lefty Grove quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Number one rule, attend to business”
-- Lefty Grove

#Baseball Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977
“You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”
“Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.”
“I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.”
“Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.”

Source : "Cobb: A Biography".
“Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from”
“Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.”
“Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.”
“A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.”

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