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Oct. 10 Gekle BUilders Men's 50 204 posts | Favorite Quotes I like the George Washington quote in Einsteins thread.Here's a couple for Einstein. A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. Malcolm X If you have no critics,you'll likely have no success. Malcolm X |
Oct. 10 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | Favorite Quotes Hey Ray, Here's 2 from Malcolm that I've always liked and show the man in the leader. "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery." Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965 "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965 |
Oct. 10 Gekle BUilders Men's 50 204 posts | Favorite Quotes Einstein, you know there is some local history on MalcolmX he lived here in Lansing Mi. not far from my grandparents late 20's early 30's until his father was murdered.After which time his mother was soon commited to a mental home in Kalamazoo Mi.(1937)Malcolm move to his sisters in Boston. |
Oct. 11 Play ball 4 posts | Favorite Quotes And from the sports world....And for those who think ,''Winning is not important'' I give you......Vince Lombardi. ''If winning isn't important, why do we keep score.'' |
Oct. 12 bashbro1 Men's 70 267 posts | Favorite Quotes Joe. Here are a few quotes that may or may not have some relevance to some of the discussions taking place on this message board. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell Stay away from the little people who try to belittle your ambitions, small people will always do that; big people can help you become great. -- Mark Twain The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -- Samuel Johnson In Senior Softball you can’t win without having a GREAT catcher behind the plate. --Bashbro1 |
Oct. 12 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | Favorite Quotes Always on time, Bash and who could argue the importance of the catcher to winning in slow pitch softball. Certainly not me or Yogi. Catching can beoome even in slow pitch a very dynamic influence on the defense. Mango for Courtesy Auto does a lot more than most catchers in readying, steadying, supporting and leading his team. They just won another National Title if I'm not mistaken. See you in Phoenix. |
Oct. 13 Bob50 Men's 60 242 posts | Favorite Quotes One that is probably good advice for this message board by Abraham Lincoln: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt". |
Oct. 13 Dbax Men's 65 2101 posts | Favorite Quotes "Asa, Let me show you what a bullet is suppose to look like.......Now that's bullet maintenance." Barney Fife |
Oct. 14 Nancy Allen Men's 55 1438 posts | Favorite Quotes As seniors, we know everything there is to know about softball. We just have trouble remembering it. NA |
Oct. 14 GeHall44 Men's 55 88 posts | Favorite Quotes "I try to think, but nothin' happens" Curly |
Oct. 14 Dbax Men's 65 2101 posts | Favorite Quotes Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode. Dean Vernon Wormer |
Oct. 14 Gekle BUilders Men's 50 204 posts | Favorite Quotes We are masters of the unsaid words,but slaves to the ones we let slip out. Winston Churchill |
Oct. 15 diehard Men's 55 246 posts | Favorite Quotes " The right side of your body is controlled by the left side of your brain and the left side of your body is controlled by the right side of your brain, this means that left handers are the only ones in their right minds" Bill " Spaceman " Lee |
Oct. 15 2awesom Men's 50 308 posts | Favorite Quotes "Nuts" Battle of the Bulge WWII |
Oct. 15 TGIII Men's 60 106 posts | Favorite Quotes You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.....Yogi Berra |
Oct. 15 Tate22 Men's 60 280 posts | Favorite Quotes "If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm!" Vince Lombardi "I've seen the enemy, and he are us" - Pogo |
Oct. 15 Dbax Men's 65 2101 posts | Favorite Quotes "I caught you a delicious bass." Napoleon Dynamite |
Oct. 15 Tate22 Men's 60 280 posts | Favorite Quotes "Mongo no know, Mongo just pawn in game of life" Mongo - Blazing Saddles |
Oct. 15 Dbax Men's 65 2101 posts | Favorite Quotes Tate22, Classic! |
Oct. 15 Tate22 Men's 60 280 posts | Favorite Quotes Mongo want to stay with Sherriff Dbax, Mongo have feelings for Sherriff Dbax. Sherriff Dbax first man to whip Mongo! Napoleon Dynamite also classic, endless material!! |
Oct. 15 Dillon1 12 posts | Favorite Quotes Hey Einstein, here is a couple of my favorites: The ulitimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Lurther King Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you NOTHING. It was here first. Mark Twain Leon |
Oct. 16 2awesom Men's 50 308 posts | Favorite Quotes "Go Ahead, Make My Day" Clint Eastwood |
Oct. 16 Nancy Allen Men's 55 1438 posts | Favorite Quotes Let's play two. -Ernie Banks Play hard, or go home. -Tim Fishburn Last stop on your way home. -Third Base Pub |
Oct. 16 RDSinNEOHIO Men's 70 31 posts | Favorite Quotes Yogi Berra, when asked why his wife accompanies him on his road trips: "She's too ugly to kiss goodbye." |
Oct. 16 softball4b Men's 70 1250 posts | Favorite Quotes The Natural Regarding my ex-wife Roy Hobbs: I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for. What I say to my sons: Iris Gaines: You know, I believe we have two lives. Roy Hobbs: How... what do you mean? Iris Gaines: The life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Advice I never listen to: Pop Fisher: People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire! |
Oct. 16 Dbax Men's 65 2101 posts | Favorite Quotes Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole! Carl Spackler |
Oct. 16 2awesom Men's 50 308 posts | Favorite Quotes Dbax The Caddy Shack Quote Now that's Classic! How about from The Airplane Movie "surely you can't be serious" "i am serious and stop calling me shirley" |
Oct. 16 RDSinNEOHIO Men's 70 31 posts | Favorite Quotes "Never give up. Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor." John Blutarsky aka John Belushi in Animal House. "Leave him alone, he's on a roll." Response by Eric Stratton. |
Oct. 16 Tate22 Men's 60 280 posts | Favorite Quotes Triple Play - Animal House, Caddy Shack, and Airplane Back to Airplane - "Jimmy, have you ever seen a gladiator movie?" "Have you ever been to a gymnasium?" |
Oct. 16 The Great McGonigle Men's 50 13 posts | Favorite Quotes I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck |
Oct. 16 Dbax Men's 65 2101 posts | Favorite Quotes This post is out of control!! |
Oct. 16 Dbax Men's 65 2101 posts | Favorite Quotes "I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to f***in' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny? Tommy Devito |
Oct. 16 southpaw Men's 70 1077 posts | Favorite Quotes Don't remember all the details, but in an early 70's(?) movie, Bill Cosby and a friend walking down an alley spy a wino asleep by the garbage cans. Bill's reply: "Look friend, someone has thrown away a perfectly good white man!"" On a more serious note: The French philosopher Pascal declared: natural or worldly knowledge must be understood to be loved. Spiritual knowledge must be loved in order to be understood. God Bless |
Oct. 16 #6 Men's 60 1173 posts | Favorite Quotes I couldn't resist: You can't handle the truth !!!(This could apply to a lot of players on this message board) |
Oct. 16 2awesom Men's 50 308 posts | Favorite Quotes #6 Good one That would be Jack Nicholson from A Few Good Men USMC |
Oct. 16 Gekle BUilders Men's 50 204 posts | Favorite Quotes Winston Churchill while campaigning for Prime Minister was approached by an angry women who critized him for womanizing and drinking said;If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea.His reply. Madam if you were my wife I would drink it! |
Oct. 16 Leoslocks Men's 60 45 posts | Favorite Quotes Mark Twain, "If it weren't for fools, we would not succeed." Socrates, 'He who has no business in politics, has no business." Shakespeare must have been a pitcher, "The danger is but sport." |
Oct. 16 bigred3 38 posts | Favorite Quotes God made beer because He loves us and wants us to be happy-Ben Franklin |
Oct. 17 2awesom Men's 50 308 posts | Favorite Quotes The Simpson's "That must be a Homer - Simpson- cause the Pitcher just went DOOO..." |
Oct. 22 Captain D 11 posts | Favorite Quotes This is an outstanding thread and I appreciate all who has contributed to it. Here are a couple more Abraham Lincoln quotes: No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Captain D |
Oct. 22 GeHall44 Men's 55 88 posts | Favorite Quotes Some golf quotes that could apply to softball ... "You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it." -Sam Snead "I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games." -Ben Hogan "The mind messes up more shots than the body." Tommy Bolt "As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round." -Ben Hogan |
Oct. 22 diehard Men's 55 246 posts | Favorite Quotes Since it is election time I thought this quote might fit: " If you are under 30 and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you are over 30 and still a liberal, you have no brain " Winston Churchhill |
Oct. 22 #6 Men's 60 1173 posts | Favorite Quotes I did not have sex with that women ! |
Oct. 22 bashbro1 Men's 70 267 posts | Favorite Quotes o Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. o My toughest fight was with my first wife. o There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. Muhammad Ali US boxer (1942 - ) |
Oct. 22 DMac Men's 60 207 posts | Favorite Quotes Two from Redd Foxx On growing up poor: "If I wasn't a boy, I would have had nothing to play with", and the great line from Harlem Nights, "It takes a powerful pussy to make a man change religions". |
Oct. 22 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | Favorite Quotes Hey Georgee, Danny, Bash and the rest. A couple more. One from my dad. "Too good is good for nothing." and "Those that make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution necessary." |
Oct. 22 GeHall44 Men's 55 88 posts | Favorite Quotes I'm liking this post. Can't believe no one has quoted the man Rodney Dangerfield yet. Here are some Rodney gems. They say 'love thy neighbor as thy self' , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too ? I came from a real tough neighborhood. In the library the sign says "shut the f..k up"! This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me. I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette. |
Oct. 22 Gekle BUilders Men's 50 204 posts | Favorite Quotes I like long walks,especially when there taken by people who annoy me! Fred Allen |
Oct. 22 bashbro1 Men's 70 267 posts | Favorite Quotes Okay Gehall44! 0 A gal phoned me the other day and said... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home. 0 I’ve been blessed with having good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheated on me. 0 I remember the time I was kidnapped as a kid and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. 0 I though I'd be good and tell my wife the truth. So I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, a plumbers, and five bartenders. 0 Back to my father. He’s was so ashamed of me that he carried around the picture of the kid that came with the wallet to show his friends. 0 When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. 0 My wife likes sex in the back seat of her car and she asked me if I wouldn' mind driving. Rodney Dangerfield |
Oct. 22 GeHall44 Men's 55 88 posts | Favorite Quotes Bashbro - Nice, I never get tired of Rodney quotes. i always have to stop and watch caddyShack when flipping channels also. How about Dave Barry? “You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.” “What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.” This one's for you Joey - “The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.” |
Oct. 23 Tate22 Men's 60 280 posts | Favorite Quotes More Rodney: "My daughter, she's no prize. She was voted most likely to conceive." "My wife is no cook, the flies took up a collection to fix the hole in the screen door." "The first time I had sex I was so scared, I was all alone." Q. Hey Rodney, what do you do for a living? A #1 "I get guys for your sister" A #2 "Why, do you want to make 10 bucks the hard way! |
Oct. 26 stick8 1992 posts | Favorite Quotes I have a good one that rings true in the sportsdworld" "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser" |
Oct. 27 MaverickAH 58 posts | Favorite Quotes "Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." -Winston Churchill |