Steve Minard

“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The naked pinch hitter takes only one thing to the plate: his raw, and somewhat irrational, confidence in himself. That this confidence is so unreasonable adds to its dignity.”
― Thomas Boswell, Why Time Begins on Opening Day

“There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later.”
― Joe Biden

“Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.”
― Thomas Boswell, How Life Imitates the World Series