Tom Verducci quotes
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“My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences.”
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“Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds.”
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“Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand in the same batter's box as Teddy Ballgame, but also because a son might sit in the same wooden-slat seat as his father.”
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“I'm still the kid who grew up with ink on his hands from delivering newspapers.”
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“Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive direction there has to be a certain amount of pride.”
-- Tom VerducciSource : "Peter, Paul and Mary star Mary Travers dies aged 72", www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.
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“I just want the viewer to have a very informative and entertaining listen. I want them to feel like they've pulled up a chair right next to us. I hope to bring to the telecast what I call 'buddy information' - where you hear something and maybe the next day you say to your buddy, 'Hey, I heard something about this player or this team,' and they pass it on by word of mouth.”
-- Tom Verducci
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“A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.”
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“Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.”
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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“People become concerned with being more humble than other people.”
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“There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.”
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“The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.”
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“As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.”
Source : Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA
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