Dave LaPoint quotes

Dave LaPoint quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I don't know how anyone can put on a uniform and not care about winning.”
-- Dave LaPoint

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“Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.”
-- Dave LaPoint

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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
“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.”
“There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.”
“Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.”
“Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out." "No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.”
“You are mine. Do you hear me? You are mine, Della Sloane. I will take care of you. Nothing is taking you away from me. Nothing.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Twisted Perfection: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster
“I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!”
“You have to care for all beings created by God...My mission is to help any person in need.”
“Care for him who shall have borne the battle”
“No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.”

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