“I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in chur...” — Rabbit Maranville Quote

“I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.”

“For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.”

“Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?”

“I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.”

“The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.”

“A lot of street dudes, you know their grandma go to church every Sunday. A lot of people in the pen, a lot of that come from them running away from that. They seen they grandma always going to church, mama always going to church, but they still struggling. This the reality of some peoples' life.”

“I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.”

“Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.”

“A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.”

“My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.”

“I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.”