Mike Penner quotes

“There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.”
-- Mike Penner

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“And you want to know why track and field is dying in this country? Kids today can watch Kobe Bryant go end-to-end and Randy Moss run a down-and-out and Ichiro Suzuki go from first to third and they will see it start to finish, in real time, the outcome happening before their eyes. But the men's 400 relay finals at the world championships? On your mark, get set . . . we'll show it to you in four hours on another network.”
-- Mike Penner

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“Christmas dresser feeling pleasure”
-- Mike Penner

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“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”

“Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.”

“It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.”

“Shut your noise, you old c***!”

“I bet him he wouldn't get 15 league goals and I'm going to have to change my bet with him. If he gets to 15 I can change it and I am allowed to do that because I'm the manager. I'm going to make it 150 now!”

“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”

“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”

“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”

“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”

Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”