Quotes from Bull Durham

• I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. And the only church that truly feeds the soul, day-in day-out, is the Church of Baseball.
  -- Annie Savoy, in Bull Durham

• There are 108 beads in a catholic rosary and 108 stitches in a baseball. When I heard that, I gave Jesus a chance.
  -- Annie Savoy

• It feels out there. I'm... It's a major rush. I mean it doesn't just feel out there, I mean it feels out there. You know? Um, kinda radical in a kinda tubular way. You know? But most of all it's out there.
  -- Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh, on "How it feels to get your first professional win"

• Guys will listen to anything if they think it's foreplay.
  -- Annie Savoy

• Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hangin' curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent over-rated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
  -- Crash Davis

• Your shower shoes have fungus on 'em. You'll never make it to the Bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the Show, you can let the fungus grow back on your shower shoes and the press will think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the Show however, it means you're a slob.
  -- Crash Davis

• Relax. Alright, don't try to strike everybody out. Strike outs are boring, besides that, they're facist. Throw some ground balls - it's more democratic. So relax, let's have fun OK? It's fun goddamnit!
  -- Crash Davis

• You just got lesson number one. Don't think, it can only hurt the ball club.
  -- Crash Davis

• This is a simple game: You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball. You got it!
  -- Skip

• 1) We gotta play 'em one day at a time.
  2) I'm just happy to be here. Hope I can help the ballclub.
  3) I just want to give it my best shot, and the good Lord willing, things will work out.
  -- Crash Davis, listing "your friends, the cliche's"

• A player on a streak has to respect the streak. You know why? Because they don't happen very often. If you believe you're playing well because your getting laid or because you're not getting laid or because you're wearing women's underwear, then you are!
  -- Crash Davis

• How come in former lifetimes, everybody is somebody famous?
  -- Crash Davis

• Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It's 25 hits. 25 hits in 500 at bats is 50 points, okay? There's 6 months in a season, that's about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week - just one - a gorp... you get a groundball, you get a groundball with eyes... you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week... and you're in Yankee Stadium.
  -- Crash Davis

• When you get in a fight with a drunk, you don't hit 'em with your pitching hand.
  -- Crash Davis

• The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness.
  -- Annie Savoy

• You be cocky and arrogant, even when you're getting beat. That's the secret. You gotta play this game with fear and arrogance.
  -- Crash Davis

• Baseball may be a religion full of magic, cosmic truth and the fundamental ontological riddles of our time, but its also a job.
  -- Annie Savoy

• A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
  -- Nuke Laloosh

• Walt Whitman once said, "I see great things in Baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us."
  -- Annie Savoy

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