Joe Dugan quotes

“To understand him you had to understand this: he wasn't human.”
-- Joe Dugan

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“Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.”
-- Joe Dugan

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“I'd give a hundred dollars for a cold beer.”
-- Joe Dugan

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“It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.”
-- Joe Dugan

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“There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.”

“You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

“I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.”

Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

“Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.”

Source : "Cobb: A Biography".

“It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.”

“All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.”

“Truth comes to us mediated by human love.”

“Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives”

“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”

Source : Agatha Christie (1962). “Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress”

“Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?”