Darrell Johnson quotes

“You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.”
-- Darrell Johnson

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“Suspend judgment until you see the end of the situation.”
-- Darrell Johnson

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“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”

“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”

“Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.”

“If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.”

“I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.”

“Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.”

“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.”

“Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.”

Source : Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press

“For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively on his rich intuitive talent. But for the chess struggle nowadays one needs a subtle knowledge of human nature, an understanding of the opponent's psychology.”

“Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.”