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Who said:
“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read it you are misinformed.”
Twain-ish possibly
Yep, the man himself.
who said, “A fool and his money are soon elected. ” and
“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance. “
and
“Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.”
and
“Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.”
Hint on: Who actually first said (wrote): “The race is not always to the swift nor the fight to the strong, but that’s the way to bet. “
and my favorite piece of advice from father to son:
what NY sports figure said, “Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.”
and
“Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.”
and
“He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team.”
what unparalleled Negro League pitcher (very short stint in the major leagues, but much too late) was reputed to have said such gems as these:
“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”
and
“Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.”
and
“I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t never been seen by this generation.”
and
“Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.”
another colorful sports figure said:
“I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?”
and
“I never did say that you can’t be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her up.”
AND
“Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.”
ONE of the greatest pitchers of all time (he did pitch very briefly in NY at the very end of his 24-year career:
“I’m probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.”
and
“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.”
and, after pitching a ball to a forlorn and insecure rookie, who could not seem to hit major league pitching and was already asking his manager to send him back to the minors, here comes a pitch from this fellow, that the rookie whallops out of the park:
“He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I’ll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I’d only struck him out.”
about that pitch he said, “For the first 60 feet, it was a heck of a pitch.” (note to some readers who are not baseball cognoscenti: the distance between the pitchers mound and home plate is 60 feet, 6 inches)
My favorite baseball, football and scientific observation quotes, and their authors:
Tim McCarver:
Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals was the luckiest pitcher he ever saw — when Gibson pitched, the other team never scored any runs!
Vince Lombardi:
“The harder we work, the luckier we get.”
and to paraphrase Louis Pasteur:
“Fortune favors the well=prepared.”
who said, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to be a fish and he’ll swim away?”
You?
right! another point for Ms. Momish.
“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
“Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.”
– Casey Stengel
“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”
– Satchel Paige
“I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?”
– Leo Durocher
Ronsr – Galileo on your earlier quote abt intellect.
How about this one, my favorite quote from my favorite writer.
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
The attribution to Abraham Lincoln of the famous P.T. Barnum quote
on the first page may have originated with a speech by Barack Obama.Correction: A speech by Bill Clinton.
On driving:
The guy in front of you is never going fast enough and you are never going fast enough for the guy behind you.
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