A new season of baseball is around the corner.

Quotes from some well known people of the sport.


Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em."
Casey Stengel

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
Yogi Berra

I don't want them to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember me!
Hank Aaron

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. Hank Aaron

Spring is on the way.

Spring is when life's alive in everything.
Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), No. 1333

[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.
Henry Timrod

An optimist is the human personification of spring.
Susan J. Bissonette

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Possessions

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

Bias

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed.

Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922), Les Plaisirs et les Jours (1896)

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida D. Scudder