Joaquin Andujar quotes

“You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'”
-- Joaquin Andujar

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“I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.”
-- Joaquin Andujar

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“There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.”
-- Joaquin Andujar

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“I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.”
-- Joaquin Andujar

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“I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.”
-- Joaquin Andujar

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“That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.”
-- Joaquin Andujar

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“There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.”
-- Joaquin Andujar

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“How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.”
-- Joaquin Andujar

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“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

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

“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.”

“Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.”

Source : "Fictional character: Joe O'Malley". "Stolen Summer", www.imdb.com. 2002.

“Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

“The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.”

“The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

“This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.”