Paul Gallico quotes

Kittens can happen to anyone. (Paul Gallico)

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Paul Gallico

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Paul Gallico

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

Paul Gallico

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Paul Gallico

Seventy-two thousand of the flock stand prepared to break the Sabbath this coming Sunday. Break it? Nay, destroy, shatter utterly with screams of pleasure as they observe a large vulgar person, himself a confessed glutton, propel a sphere an unholy distance. Old Nick rides on Ruth's bat, else how could he smite the ball so far beyond the power of ordinary man? He is in league. Forbid the games. Cast this Ruth out into utter darkness. He creates joy annually for millions.

Paul Gallico

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Paul Gallico

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

Paul Gallico

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: July 26, 1897
Died: July 15, 1976
Quotes count: 8

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