Macphail Quotes

#1. I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.

Warren Giles

#2. I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.

Bobby Cox

#3. There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

Leo Durocher

#4. It looks like a prisoner of war camp to me." Fiona threw her rucksack down in disgust. "I was expecting a five-star hotel at least.

Cathy MacPhail

#5. Mr. Huang's nickname was Old Yellow, because that is what his name literally meant and he was the senior person in the office.

Theresa MacPhail

#6. I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.

Larry MacPhail

#7. Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.

Agnes Macphail

#8. When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

Larry MacPhail

#9. If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.

Agnes Macphail

#10. Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Agnes Macphail

#11. You can keep waiting for somebody else to define you, or give you your place in the world, or you can decide that you're not just somebody's broken puppet anymore. Choose.

David Fury

#12. I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Agnes Macphail

#13. If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

Agnes Macphail

#14. The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fillies every year and race them. The good ones, the ones that show potentialities, you keep, and the others you get rid of. In that way, you have a chance to build up a good brood mare band.

Larry MacPhail

#15. Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.

Agnes Macphail

#16. It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

Agnes Macphail

#17. The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

Larry MacPhail

#18. When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

Agnes Macphail

#19. People were entranced by flame and repelled by human suffering, and wasn't that some kind of design flaw?

Joe Hill

#20. The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in.

Kevin Conroy

#21. Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.

Lee MacPhail

#22. She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.

George R R Martin

#23. Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Agnes Macphail

#24. It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an economic standpoint - in Maryland. Maryland is not a cattle state. To raise beef cattle successfully, you've got to be able to raise cheap feed.

Larry MacPhail

#25. The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.

Larry MacPhail

#26. The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

Agnes Macphail

#27. I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.

Agnes Macphail

#28. I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

Agnes Macphail

#29. I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.

Larry MacPhail

#30. I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.

Agnes Macphail

#31. Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.

Larry MacPhail

#32. I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

Agnes Macphail

#33. There is always something new out of Africa.

Pliny The Elder