Ferguson Jenkins famous quotes

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
-- Ferguson Jenkins

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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
-- Ferguson Jenkins

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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
-- Ferguson Jenkins

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Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.
-- Ferguson Jenkins

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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.

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.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.

Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them. Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified in pursuing them and warring against them.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.