Base Ball Players

Famous quotes containing the words base, ball and/or players:

    “Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun,
    That will not be deep searched with saucy looks;
    Small have continual plodders ever won,
    Save base authority from others’ books.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “But the ball is lost and the mallet slipped long since from the hands
    Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child.”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

    “Yeah, percentage players die broke too, don’t they, Bert?”
    —Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Eddie Felson (Paul Newman)