Sam McDowell quotes

Sam McDowell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit.”
-- Sam McDowell

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“I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.”
-- Sam McDowell

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“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
“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”

Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
“I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.”

Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.
“Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.”

Source : "Cobb: A Biography".
“Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!”
“I would love to work with Salman. We have a great tuning so if we work together, it will be great fun. But till the time we don't get a good script, a script that excites both of us, we can't work together.”

Source : "Salman is number one: Aamir Khan". www.hindustantimes.com. September 11, 2011.
“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”
“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”
“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”
“I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.”

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