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Top 25 Roger Angell Quotes (2024 Update)

Roger Angell Quote: “Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.”

1. “Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.”

2. “I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man’s hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance – thrown hard and with precision.”

3. “Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man’s hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance – thrown hard and with precision.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Getting old is the second-biggest surprise of my life, but the first, by a mile, is our unceasing need for deep attachment and intimate love. We oldies yearn daily and hourly for conversation and a renewed domesticity, for company at the movies or while visiting a museum, for someone close by in the car when coming home at night.”

4. “Getting old is the second-biggest surprise of my life, but the first, by a mile, is our unceasing need for deep attachment and intimate love. We oldies yearn daily and hourly for conversation and a renewed domesticity, for company at the movies or while visiting a museum, for someone close by in the car when coming home at night.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.”

5. “Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.”

6. “I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.”

7. “Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.”

8. “We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can’t remember.”

9. “I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can’t remember.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Offhand, I can think of no other sport in which the world’s champions, one of the great teams of its era, would not instantly demolish inferior opposition and reduce a game such as the one we had just seen to cruel ludicrousness. Baseball is harder than that; it requires a full season, hundreds and hundreds of separate games, before quality can emerge, and in that summer span every hometown fan, every doomed admirer of underdogs will have his afternoons of revenge and joy.”

10. “Offhand, I can think of no other sport in which the world’s champions, one of the great teams of its era, would not instantly demolish inferior opposition and reduce a game such as the one we had just seen to cruel ludicrousness. Baseball is harder than that; it requires a full season, hundreds and hundreds of separate games, before quality can emerge, and in that summer span every hometown fan, every doomed admirer of underdogs will have his afternoons of revenge and joy.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap.”

11. “Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only dimly. The players below us – Mays, DiMaggio, Ruth, Snodgrass – swim and blur in memory, the ball floats over to Terry Turner, and the end of this game may never come.”

12. “Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only dimly. The players below us – Mays, DiMaggio, Ruth, Snodgrass – swim and blur in memory, the ball floats over to Terry Turner, and the end of this game may never come.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.”

13. “Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “What really makes baseball so hard is it’s retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.”

14. “What really makes baseball so hard is it’s retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.”

15. “Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “The best defense against partisanship is expertise.”

16. “The best defense against partisanship is expertise.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.”

17. “Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.”

18. “Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “A recent study of three thousand New England high-school kids shows that students with B averages or better enjoyed seventeen to thirty-three minutes more sleep and went to bed ten to fifty minutes earlier than students with C averages.”

19. “A recent study of three thousand New England high-school kids shows that students with B averages or better enjoyed seventeen to thirty-three minutes more sleep and went to bed ten to fifty minutes earlier than students with C averages.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.”

20. “Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “I’ve been lucky. I’ve met a lot of baseball people, and I’ve learned to value people who talk – people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.”

21. “I’ve been lucky. I’ve met a lot of baseball people, and I’ve learned to value people who talk – people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in which case I’ve begun to feel some jagged little pains shooting down my left forearm and into the base of the thumb.”

22. “I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in which case I’ve begun to feel some jagged little pains shooting down my left forearm and into the base of the thumb.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they’re basically overlooked.”

23. “The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they’re basically overlooked.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “I knew I wasn’t a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn’t want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.”

24. “I knew I wasn’t a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn’t want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Nine runs to the bad, doomed, insanely hopeful, they pleaded raucously for the impossible.”

25. “Nine runs to the bad, doomed, insanely hopeful, they pleaded raucously for the impossible.”

— Roger Angell

Roger Angell Quote: “Tebbetts is seventy-four years old, and scouts for the Indians. He listened to our conversation about pitches and pitchers, and muttered, “Sometimes I watch one of these young pitchers we’ve got, and I tell my club, “This man needs another pitch. By which I mean a strike.”

26. “Tebbetts is seventy-four years old, and scouts for the Indians. He listened to our conversation about pitches and pitchers, and muttered, “Sometimes I watch one of these young pitchers we’ve got, and I tell my club, “This man needs another pitch. By which I mean a strike.”

— Roger Angell

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