“And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.”
Source: A Ring of Endless Light
“Maybe, but I don't have another life to live to wait around for it.”
Speaking on August 31, 1956 at Griffith Stadium, in response to pitcher Whitey Ford's assurance that he could indeed retire Jim Lemon, who had homered off Ford in each of his previous three at-bats; as quoted in The Greatest Team of All Timeː As Selected by Baseball's Immortals, From Ty Cobb to Willie Mays (1994) by Nicholas Acocella and Donald Dewey, p. 113
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