Quotes About Tris Speaker

#1. The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one's own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.

Hannah Arendt

#2. It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

Tris Speaker

#3. The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned.

Steven Pinker

#4. I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

Mischa Barton

#5. Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

Tris Speaker

#6. If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

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#7. The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

Tris Speaker

#8. Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

Tris Speaker

#9. When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.

Tris Speaker

#10. The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved instead of loving.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#11. Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

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#12. The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

Tris Speaker

#13. I am going through transformation. I enjoy the different transitions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Brandon Boyd

#15. All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

Plato