John Lowenstein quotes

“They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays”
-- John Lowenstein

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“The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats.”
-- John Lowenstein

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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

“There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.”

“For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.”

“It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.”

“God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!”

“We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.”

Source : "The Silent Wife".

“Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 09, 2013

“It didn't mean forever but for right now I wanted Rush to be my first. He wouldn't be my last. A stop I might never forget or get over. That was what scared me the most. Not being able to move on.”

“If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.”

“If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org