Ken Singleton quotes

“A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.”
-- Ken Singleton

#Baseball Quotes #Men Quotes #Lord Quotes

“Good hitters don't become intimidated. They become infuriated.”
-- Ken Singleton

Source : Interview with Matt Warden, riveraveblues.com. June 12, 2013.

#Intimidated Quotes

“On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.”

“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

“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.”

Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989

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

“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings.”

“I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.”