Waxing Poetic

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Good topic CD. After I finish up polishing my '38 DeSoto Poetic I'll share one with you.





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Whew! OK...here goes. This one I coined years ago...it is seldom used.

"It couldn't be anymore clear than gin in crystal."

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OK CD, here's a nuther...

After watching a tough kid slide headfirst into home and having a very dusty uniform to show for it I have yelled approvingly...

"Anymore dirt on you kid and you'll have to start paying property tax!"

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That one is VERY good, mind if I borrow it in the future?

I'll be using that one Woody.

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Have at it guys!



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It ain't the size of the dog in the fight...but rather...the size of the fight in the dog..

When talking about bats Ted Williams said, "It's the Indian, not the arrow."

"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." Nolan Ryan

"I had slumps that lasted into the winter." Bob Uecker

"In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs." Bob Uecker

"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all." Lou Gehrig

"I don't care who you are, you hear those boos." Mickey Mantle

"They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it." Willie Mays

Something I tell my guys when they want to complain about something on them hurting (not real injuries).


You're young - it will grow back.

I even got our student trainer saying to them now.

A player that doesn't have any errors doesn't go for the hard ones. I think it was Ozzie Smith who said it.

You're only as good as your next at bat- Me to my son before every game

You dont lose when you get knocked down. You lose when you decide not to get back up.

you don't need ability or talent to hustle.

he couldn't hit sand if he fell off a camel.

they timed him with a calender.

no matter how good you think you are you can't win this game alone. even if you struck everyone out, somebody has to throw the ball back to ya.

"Beisbol been bery, bery good to me!"

Chico Escuela

As he was headed out to the field, I would always tell my little league son - "stay away from kids swingin' bats". (We had some crazy kids on some of those teams who weren't very spatially aware). Turns out now he is a catcher. Comes within inches of every bat swung. I still tell him.

"Never give up! Never give up! Never give up!" ~ Winston Churchill

"When you find yourself in a hole - stop diggin'." ~ Anonymous

"If you think you can - you can! If you think you can't you're probably right!" ~ Henry Ford

"It's not what you do, it's what you do next!" ~ Coach Smokey

"Many are called but few are chosen." ~ Matthew 22:14

My Favorite;

"It is better to be thought a fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt!" ~

Renditions of this quote has been credited to; The Bible; Probverbs 17:28, Abriham Lincoln, Confucius, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin (rendition above), Socrates, Samuel Johnson, George Eliot, Albert Einstein, Silvan Engel (??), Groucho Marx, Oscar Wilde, Woodrow Wilson, and John Edgerton Anderson.

My #1 was taken, "lose when you chose not to get up." My #2 is ... "You will fail at 100% of the attempts you don't make."

Being a sc rappy (can't believe the board's auto monitor sometimes ... s******) player my favorite poster of all time showed an animal half swallowed by a snake. The animal had the snake by the throat yelling, "Give up yet?"

"when I went to Catholic High School in Philadelphia, we had one coach for football and baseball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees went on the football team."- George Raveling

It's in my sig line...>>>

My mantra on youth sports when things go crazy.

"It's always the parents!"

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Originally posted by fillsfan:
My mantra on youth sports when things go crazy.

"It's always the parents!"

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When I was very young my favorite saying whenever I would encounter one of these...



...was "Get a horse!"



Now my favorite saying whenever I swat at one of these...



...is "Get a scooter!"




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Love only has Value, when it is given Freely.

My husband often told my son as he was headed out the door to play ball:

"Keep your stick on the ice!"

Son was also a hockey player.

Sometimes he offered a little more useful advice (before a ball game):

"See the ball, hit the ball."

(There's a lot of truth in that simple line ... I think some of the most successful hitters at the highest levels, including Joe Mauer, are those who really "see" pitches.)

Julie

But to wax poetic as my friend CD first phrased it when beginning this thread...one of my favorite sayings, when thinking about how you can make a difference and whether your little bit of caring truly matters:

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."

Julie

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Thanks Mom...the inscription is printed in such small print I was having trouble reading it!



Seriously...that is an excellent saying and so very true!




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THE GAME IS WHAT GET'S INSIDE OF YOU! IT'S WHAT LIGHTS YOU UP! YOU CAN'T DENY THAT. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE HARD. IF IT WASN'T HARD, THEN EVERYONE WOULD DO IT! THE HARD IS WHAT MAKES IT GREAT!"

JIMMY DUGAN(TOM HANKS) FROM A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN.

"It's not how many times you get knocked down; it's how many times you get back up."