Michael Scanlon quotes

Michael Scanlon quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is b.s. Not only do you kick himâ€”you kick him until he passes outâ€”then beat him over the head with a baseball batâ€”then roll him up in an old rugâ€”and throw him off a cliff into the pounding surf below!!!!!”
-- Michael Scanlon

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“The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.”
-- Michael Scanlon

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“Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.”
-- Michael Scanlon

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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
“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.
“And I can say that Iâ€™ll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat.”
“You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.”
“What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.”

Source : Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.12, University of Chicago Press
“It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.”
“It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that ***** habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.”
“Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it.”
“Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.”
“Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ***** while singing.”

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