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Roger Angell Quotes

«Law of Probability Dispersal : Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed»
«The rest were just pieces I liked, pieces that seemed fresh to me when I went back to them, sometimes for the first time in a long time.»
Author: Roger Angell
«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.»
Author: Roger Angell
«Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.»
Author: Roger Angell
«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.»
Author: Roger Angell
«I was in my thirties. I wasn't a kid. I think that instinctively I thought I'd have to trust myself and to report about what I was seeing, what I was thinking as a fan, and not to try to fake it by being knowing about these players and their deliveries and all that stuff which I later learned about.»
Author: Roger Angell
«He was too nervous to travel, by and large.»
Author: Roger Angell