Political Quotes

“I love baseball. Growing up in farm country in southern Illinois, I always managed with my cousins to start the baseball season this time of the year with some pickup games, and I dreamed of the time that I could become a baseball coach. I went into the Army when I was 17, and I got out at age 20 and started going to the university. I got a bachelor's degree in physical education and became a baseball coach. I started coaching in a small rural high school. After the basketball season had ended my first year of coaching, it was only a few weeks' time that we had to get into the baseball season. In between that and the April showers we did not have much practice time. Lo and behold, the kids had not had the privilege of playing in Little League or Pony League or Legion Ball, so they knew nothing about the fundamentals of baseball. In our first game of the year we were playing another team in a nearby community. We were behind 9 to nothing in the bottom of the 5th inning. In high school ball there is a 10-run rule. If you are behind 10 runs at the end of the 5th inning everybody goes home. They make the assumption you are not going to catch up; the game is over. So the opposing team had the bases loaded and nobody out. If the kid on third base scores the game is over and we all go home. So I walked outside the dugout and yelled to my men in the infield.”