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The Mound

«I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.»
«He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.»
Author: Ernest Bramah | Keywords: digging, mound, mounds, pit, The Mound
«Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.»
«As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.»
«Johnny Sain doesn't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.»
«You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.»
«On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its 'great intellects.''»
«If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred, malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do; your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!»