I always thought the best players in the world were in the major leagues. This tournament shows that this is not true.
Akinori Otsuka
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GARY F EVANS... I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might...
STEPHENIE MEYER She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING I can't even
SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT The Cuban team is an enigma. Everyone knows they produce tremendous players but it's always been dif...
ALEX CZAJKOWSKI Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what mat...
BELA KAROLYI Our favorite games were killing.
Our favorite books were death.
It had been beaten into us...
JOSEPH BATHANTI I think he's the best pitcher that I've seen in the 40 years that I've been in the major leagues,
LARRY DIERKER Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
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OSHO We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
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AHMED BEDIER Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.
KATHERINE PATERSON If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
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BOB MOAWAD You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER I think this Classic is historic because it demonstrated that not only the players from the paid maj...
FREDERICH CEPEDA That's amazing. That proves that Venezuela has a lot of players good enough to be in the Major Leagu...
CARLOS ZAMBRANO When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO I think this is what the NCAA Tournament is all about, just playing against great competition night ...
RANDY FOYE Is there some lesson on how to be friends?
I think what it means is that central to living
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WILLIAM S. PETERS, SR. This is the greatest victory in the history of Cuban baseball because our opponents were major-leagu...
FREDERICH CEPEDA Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN People will always show their true selves in the end.
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BILLY OWENS No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
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J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
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THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
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NEIL GAIMAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
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RICK RIORDAN I thought I was a pretty good shortstop, but I also wanted to play in the major leagues.
RYNE SANDBERG An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
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J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The evidence shows this is not true.
COLIN ANDERSON The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
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DANIEL BREAKER We wait upon finite minds to validate infinite things— this is evidence of human stupidity.
C. JOYBELL C. Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
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ALFREDO GRIFFIN This is the strangest life I have ever known.
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GARY F EVANS... To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
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AUGIE GARRIDO Afro-Americans. Which is but a wedding, however, of two confusions, an arbitrary linking of two unde...
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ASSEGID HABTEWOLD All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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JOHN GREEN What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
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ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
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