Quotes About Christy Mathewson

#1. Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

Grantland Rice

#2. Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Christy Mathewson

#3. Just because it's forbidden doesn't mean it's good for you.

George Hammond

#4. You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

Christy Mathewson

#5. If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.

Jason Mraz

#6. I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

Sydney Pollack

#7. The people of Israel have lived 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America and will continue to live without it another 3,700 years.

Menachem Begin

#8. I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.

Christy Mathewson

#9. A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

Christy Mathewson

#10. I am not a veteran environmentalist. I don't live in a house made of recycled tires, I've never handcuffed myself to a tree, and I don't grow my own organic rutabaga.

Christy Mathewson

#11. There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.

Neil Tennant

#12. We were standing near the Lollipop Forest when we realized that Santa is an anagram of Satan ... Overhearing the customers we would substitute the Satan for the world Santa.

David Sedaris

#13. Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.

Richard Cecil

#14. Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

Christy Mathewson

#15. Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.

Christy Mathewson

#16. You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained.

Christy Mathewson

#17. A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

Christy Mathewson

#18. A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

Christy Mathewson

#19. I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.

Christy Mathewson

#20. So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

David Nicholls

#21. Anything you want, Bran. You know I won't say no. I never have.

Lorelei James

#22. If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

Christy Mathewson

#23. It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

Hippocrates

#24. Travelling with a tail-end ball club is the poorest pastime in the world. I would rather ride in the first coach of a funeral procession.

Christy Mathewson

#25. No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

Christy Mathewson