Albert Spalding Quotes

#1. Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

Albert Goodwill Spalding

#2. No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Albert Goodwill Spalding

#3. There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.

Tara Strong

#4. Everything is possible to him that dares.

Albert Goodwill Spalding

#5. Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

John Tuzo Wilson

#6. Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.

Albert Goodwill Spalding

#7. Time passes. Horror does not. *

Alan Dean Foster

#8. In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

Hakim Bey

#9. If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

John Ruskin

#10. You ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

Michael Gove

#12. My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Anthony Hopkins