Carl Erskine quotes

Carl Erskine quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.”
-- Carl Erskine

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“I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.”
-- Carl Erskine

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“Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.”
“The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.”
“The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
“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.”
“Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.”
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”
“I always thought the name of Utahâ€™s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word â€œdesert.â€ But no, Deseret is the â€œland of the honeybee,â€ according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”

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