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“Teams should play a 3-4 defense here. Put another guy in the outfield. Who needs a second baseman in that park?”
-Pittsburgh Pirates coach Rich Donnelly, on the Colorado Rockies’ Mile High Stadium, whose thin air, huge outfields and rock-hard infield produce a hitter’s paradise.
“They don’t like hearing that they’re not going to heaven.”
-Martin King, of the Southern Baptist Church, on critics of a church study which concluded that 46 percent of the people in Alabama are in danger of damnation.
“It’s nerve-racking. I pray for the office to call me before I have to leave, and say, `Sorry, we can’t go. The helicopter’s down again.’ Or, `It’s snowing in Utica.’ “
-New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, a renowned orator, on his discomfort giving speeches.
