Sayings About Baseball Diamonds

#1. Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

Linus Torvalds

#2. Wrap fish fillets, sliced veggies, and other quick-cooking items inside foil packets with bundles of fresh herbs and throw them directly on the grill; the steam will release the herb's perfume and flavor anything contained inside the pouch.

Emeril Lagasse

#3. Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#4. You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.

Gary Zukav

#5. Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.

Gianfranco Zola

#6. No matter who you are, your progress and success in life will depend, more than any other factor, on how you invest the twenty-four hours you're blessed with each day.

Tommy Newberry

#7. These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?

William J. Clinton

#8. To feed our people we must first feed our soil

Olusegun Obasanjo

#9. [On softball:] Diamonds are a dyke's best friend.

Yvonne Zipter

#10. Are you in Portland on business? I ask, and my voice is too high, like I've got my finger trapped in a door or something. Damn! Try to be cool, Ana!

E.L. James

#11. Ah sweet city of my dreams
Of speed and skill and schemes
Like Atlantis you just disappeared from view
And the hare upon the wire
Has been burnt upon your pyre
Like the black dog that once raced
Out from trap two

Shane MacGowan

#12. Ministers and merchants love nobody.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. Great is our calling,
We dare not be idle.
The saddle is in place,
And Jesus is bridle.

Kari L. Greenaway