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Johnny Pesky quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.”
-- Johnny Pesky

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“I think if you're Red Sox, well, it's something you're born with, and affection you have.”
-- Johnny Pesky

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“Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.”
-- Johnny Pesky

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“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.”
“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.”
“I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.”

Source : "Adam Sandler Interview GROWN UPS". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 21, 2010.
“Whatever you do today you've got to sleep with tonight.”
“I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.”
“There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.”
“Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

Source : Last Poems (1922) no. 9
“I've never read anything about ***** where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin.”
“It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.”
“We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't.”

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