Roger Angell quote: "I was in my thirties. I wasn't a kid. I think that instinctively I thought I'd have to trust myself and to report about what I was seeing, what I was thinking as a fan, and not to try to fake it by being knowing about these players and their deliveries and all that stuff which I later learned about."

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players...
ROGER ANGELL

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically over...
ROGER ANGELL

Tim is unusual because he is such an enthusiast for the game. A lot of people I know can't stand him...
ROGER ANGELL

He was too nervous to travel, by and large.
ROGER ANGELL

Tim is unusual because he is such an enthusiast for the game. A lot of people I know can't stand him...
ROGER ANGELL

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, an...
ROGER ANGELL

Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me wha...
ROGER ANGELL

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - peop...
ROGER ANGELL

The rest were just pieces I liked, pieces that seemed fresh to me when I went back to them, sometime...
ROGER ANGELL

Law of Probability Dispersal : Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed
ROGER ANGELL

What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're get...
ROGER ANGELL

PTSD is curable when one realises how the unconscious mind works and that the symptoms of PTSD are a...
ROGER ROGER

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak...
NORMAN ANGELL

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own m...
NORMAN ANGELL

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
NORMAN ANGELL

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except b...
NORMAN ANGELL

The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only ...
NORMAN ANGELL

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak...
NORMAN ANGELL

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL

The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the...
NORMAN ANGELL

Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.
KATE ANGELL

The girls are very excited and pumped up. They are a little nervous, but I think they are ready for ...
ANGELL FLOYD

I was trying to slow the ball down and they were trying to push the ball. That is the difference in ...
ANGELL FLOYD

Our defense picked up in the third quarter. Our defense was horrible in the second quarter. We were ...
ANGELL FLOYD

It was ugly but it was a win and we'll take it.
ANGELL FLOYD

It was good to see the girls can overcome obstacles and even pick up their game even more. They step...
ANGELL FLOYD

When her shot is on, give it to her.
ANGELL FLOYD

If we can hang with them, then we can hang with most anybody else in the state. It is good to see th...
ANGELL FLOYD

A good friend will come and bail you out of jail, but a best friend will be sitting next to you sayi...
KATE ANGELL

It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane ...
MARCIA ANGELL

If you say no, you could be jailed for two years.
IAN ANGELL

There are a lot anarchists are out there who see what they're doing as a long-term war against techn...
IAN ANGELL

In 1992 and 1993, people thought I was crazy. Then, all my predictions started coming true, and I re...
IAN ANGELL

The idea of saying we all sit together and agree to share the profit is highly problematic because d...
IAN ANGELL

I do not believe (his ideas) would work in large companies, such as in a public limited company for ...
IAN ANGELL

All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you. Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. ...
IAN ANGELL

American newspapers write about the information economy. In contrast, Europeans speak of an 'informa...
IAN ANGELL

All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you, ... Crazy mayors want to tax the Intern...
IAN ANGELL

The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of in...
MARCIA ANGELL

Michelle is a very talented Irish dancer. Chris Foster has the same influences as mine. He's mostly ...
JIM ANGELL

Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the...
JIM ANGELL

They plainly saw the writing on the wall. They saw that the way they [crafted] the settlement would ...
JIM ANGELL

This shows that criminals are attempting to stay ahead of the game by trying to evade detection at B...
JIM ANGELL

They're coming at it from both sides.
JIM ANGELL

I think their response has been very measured.
JIM ANGELL

Steve told us about the LCCC gig and wondered if we'd be interested, and we jumped at it.
JIM ANGELL

We're going to do some old traditional folk songs. We haven't completely set up a list. We'll play s...
JIM ANGELL

We're getting a collection of Irish and Scottish music going, which is fun and it really gets people...
JIM ANGELL

Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they sp...
MARCIA ANGELL

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing...
MARCIA ANGELL

The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and pr...
MARCIA ANGELL

Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant an...
MARCIA ANGELL

When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's ...
MARCIA ANGELL

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There&...
MARCIA ANGELL

When you watch the (news) segment, isn't it very clear to you that he's talking about radical Islam?...
ANGELL WATTS

This is what the word of God says. This is nothing new to the Christian community.
ANGELL WATTS

We have not talked to the Israelis on this topic. We continue to maintain our long-standing commitme...
ANGELL WATTS

There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decid...
MARCIA ANGELL

Warm air exits through these cavities and exits through the attic.
BILL ANGELL

Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If he...
MARCIA ANGELL

It reduces the rate of return on that $6.5 trillion hiding in money-market accounts. As that rate of...
WAYNE ANGELL

He is not going to give that much of an indication on his own, because this Fed chief is an effectiv...
WAYNE ANGELL

The markets are saying (a rate hike) is not only justified, but it's good news. It remains to be see...
WAYNE ANGELL

We're not likely to get the bond yield moving through that 4.75 percent level until we get past all ...
WAYNE ANGELL

This [confidence report] increases the likelihood [rates] will be moved down another [half percentag...
WAYNE ANGELL

Alan Greenspan tends to give a tougher talk in a speech when he is not going to raise rates than he ...
WAYNE ANGELL

The world's central banks have certainly decided U.S. Treasury notes are a better long term investme...
WAYNE ANGELL

No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds...
WAYNE ANGELL

Bush has been more open to having more of a bipartisan board than I've seen before. I didn't even gi...
WAYNE ANGELL

Chairman Greenspan's comments went further than previous Fed commentary on recognizing the degree of...
WAYNE ANGELL

There cannot be two kinds of medicine.
MARCIA ANGELL

The more research we have, the better, ... Those treatments that are found to be effective will, bel...
MARCIA ANGELL

Since 1994, any herbal remedy sold as a dietary supplement -- no matter what their real purpose -- t...
MARCIA ANGELL

I think it's scary, ... Doctors and patients have come to believe that prescription drugs are more e...
MARCIA ANGELL

[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example,...
MARCIA ANGELL

Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on altern...
MARCIA ANGELL

[According to some experts, the American Healthcare system is on the brink of failure.] We certainly...
MARCIA ANGELL

Once we determine the benchmarks, we're going to come in with a full insulation package, attic, wall...
BILL ANGELL

Absolutely. You couldn't keep heat in this house.
BILL ANGELL

These things tend to move forward quite slowly.
TOM ANGELL

We basically say the law is unconstitutional because it punishes students twice for the same crime. ...
TOM ANGELL

Kicking students out will only increase drug abuse, which is the exact opposite intention of the law...
TOM ANGELL

The law was intended to reduce drug use, but it causes more by kicking students out of school, which...
TOM ANGELL

The government thought they could intimidate us ... they had no other choice but to give [us the inf...
TOM ANGELL

While the law is aimed at reducing drug abuse it actually causes more drug abuse in our society by b...
TOM ANGELL

Murderers and rapists can apply for federal aid, but a student caught with a single marijuana cigare...
TOM ANGELL

Murderers and rapists are still eligible to receive aid.
TOM ANGELL

We have been working to repeal this law for the past eight years. We are lobbying Congress, but Cong...
TOM ANGELL

After we have received the information from the Department of Education, we're going to have to go t...
TOM ANGELL

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
MARCIA ANGELL

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge ex...
MARCIA ANGELL

For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you...
MARCIA ANGELL

My eyes are open now and can never be closed.
JASMINE ANGELL

Rat-a-tat-tat."
"Quack."
KATE ANGELL

I like when you look at me like you can’t figure me out. You’re considering getting to know me, ...
KATE ANGELL

Adante rolled her eyes. She wished human males were mythical. That’d be a nice reality to wake up ...
JASMINE ANGELL

Karen raised $1,000. That will help pay for the care of the animals at the shelter.
JODI ANGELL

The most important thing to remember when seeing these movies is that just like the rest of the cast...
JODI ANGELL

We're not a dumping ground anymore - last year we placed 9,000 animals.
JODY ANGELL

As funds grow, we will develop more of the land.
JODY ANGELL

The sanctuary will be like a retirement home for animals.
JODY ANGELL

The Federal Reserve engages in a series of rate hikes at the tail end of an expansion when inflation...
WAYNE ANGELL

If they took the 55th Brigade away, I'm sure we will probably see a number of units shift around. If...
CAPT. CORY ANGELL

It gets vague as far as how many people would be cut.
CAPT. CORY ANGELL

Let [the wife] guard, as much as possible, against a gloomy and moody disposition, which causes her ...
JOHN ANGELL JAMES

Stryker is so much more than the vehicle. The key to the Stryker is communication. It's a new way to...
CAPT. CORY ANGELL

We always look to where our units come from. They are solidifying themselves as part of that brigade...
CAPT. CORY ANGELL

It's very up in the air. We haven't heard anything.
CAPT. CORY ANGELL

It encourages the soldiers to build their team and to get out there and find people that they would ...
CAPT. CORY ANGELL

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the mid...
ROGER WATERS

When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my ki...
ROGER FEDERER

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and wee...
ROGER STAUBACH

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular resu...
ROGER STAUBACH

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the p...
ROGER MAHONY

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.
ROGER SPOTTISWOODE

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when ...
ROGER FEDERER

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the be...
ROGER FEDERER

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's ...
ROGER FEDERER

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divor...
ROGER WATERS

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody ...
ROGER DEAKINS

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
ROGER BACON

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.
ROGER SHERMAN

In burgundy, a well-cut and properly tailored velvet blazer looks dashing with gray flannels and a c...
ROGER STONE

Plush velvet conjures up kings and opulence.
ROGER STONE

Bitcoin never sleeps. We need to move quickly and grow quickly and do everything sooner rather than ...
ROGER VER

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around...
ROGER WILKINS

I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would ...
ROGER REES

I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, ...
ROGER FEDERER

Every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt from Brooks Brot...
ROGER STONE

'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Iden...
ROGER AVARY

Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.
ROGER STONE

If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd r...
ROGER STONE

From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage ...
ROGER VADIM

Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your poc...
ROGER STONE

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a poin...
ROGER PENROSE

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.
ROGER MILLA

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites ...
ROGER MILLA

Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players ar...
ROGER MILLA

A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I thi...
ROGER EBERT

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, s...
ROGER MCGOUGH

Socks must be at least an 18-percent synthetic blend to insure they don't droop, because droopy ...
ROGER STONE

Lots of hardworking, blue-collar people across America have lost their jobs since the 1990s - victim...
ROGER STONE

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending m...
ROGER MOORE

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.
ROGER REES

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's...
ROGER BACON

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when dire...
ROGER EBERT

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.
ROGER MOORE

Men play the game; women know the score
ROGER WODDIS

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.
ROGER STONE

The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do...
ROGER BIRKMAN

When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam...
ROGER STONE

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
ROGER PENROSE

Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.
ROGER PENROSE

Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is h...
ROGER WICKER

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethi...
ROGER WICKER

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
ROGER SPERRY

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
ROGER ASCHAM

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on...
ROGER WICKER

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question ab...
ROGER WICKER

So you think you can tell heaven from hell - blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field from a...
ROGER WATERS

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
ROGER WICKER

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
ROGER ZELAZNY

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
JOHN ROGER

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
ROGER STARR

The Establishment on both the Left and the Right, who want to disenfranchise the millions of Republi...
ROGER STONE

I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with.
ROGER STONE

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I woul...
ROGER WATERS

I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so bi...
ROGER EBERT

Nothing shows both polish and utility like the nattily tucked pocket handkerchief or 'pocket squ...
ROGER STONE

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable...
ROGER L'ESTRANGE

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employe...
ROGER SMITH

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
ROGER ASCHAM

By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year th...
ROGER ASCHAM

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve
ROGER LEWIN

The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.
ROGER EBERT

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized ni...
ROGER EBERT

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew ex...
ROGER BANNISTER

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ev...
ROGER ZELAZNY

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being t...
ROGER EBERT

You win not by chance, but by preparation.
ROGER MARIS

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
ROGER MARIS

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forc...
ROGER ENRICO

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
ROGER MOORE

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and y...
ROGER STAUBACH

The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you ...
ROGER WILLIAMS

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
ROGER LEWIN

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge...
ROGER BABSON

Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program....
ROGER EBERT

We can learn from history on condition that we understand it is history.
ROGER KAPLAN

Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness.
ROGER M'CKUEN

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that les...
ROGER CRAIG

You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.
ROGER SMITH

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
ROGER EBERT

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dres...
ROGER CARAS

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...
ROGER BACON

The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. ...
ROGER BIRKMAN

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This ...
ROGER BACON

Inflation is determined by money supply growth.
ROGER BOOTLE

I was in my thirties. I wasn't a kid. I think that instinctively I thought I'd have to trust myself and to report about what I was seeing, what I was thinking as a fan, and not to try to fake it by being knowing about these players and their deliveries and all that stuff which I later learned about.

Roger Angell

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