Billy Beane on league
Billy Beane7 quotes“When you’re scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there’s no value that’s too high.”
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When your enemy’s making mistakes, don’t interrupt him.
Billy BeaneBilly Beane Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball
Billy BeaneBilly Beane The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don’t buy that because I’ve seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit’s not in there.
Billy BeaneBilly Beane How can you not be romantic about baseball?
Billy BeaneBilly Beane You have to face reality some time. But there’s no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.
Billy BeaneBilly Beane
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on league
Thursday night games are difficult to contend with given the level of physicality we deal with in the Premier League.
Alan PardewAlan Pardew Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don’t have pace.
Alan HansenAlan Hansen It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.
Al KalineAl Kaline All of a sudden I’m in the major leagues and we’re traveling from town to town.
Al KalineAl Kaline The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
Al FrankenAl Franken I love my country and I love my league.
Al DavisAl Davis I show up on the injury report as much as the statsheet, but if I’m healthy, I’m going to be a late-round steal in most leagues.
Ahmad BradshawAhmad Bradshaw The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives of all nations should dedicate a Temple of Eternal Peace.
Ahad Ha'amAhad Ha'am
