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“This is my most special place in all the world. Once a place touches you like this, the wind never blows so cold again. You feel…like it was your child.” Burt Lancaster as Doc Graham, saying ‘no’ to Ray Kinsella’s invitation to Iowa in ‘Field of Dreams’.


“People will come, Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway, not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. “Of course, we won’t mind if you look around,” you’ll say. “It’s only $20 per person.” They’ll pass over the money without even thinking about it, for it’s money they have and peace they lack."

(“Ray, just sign the papers!”)

“Then they’ll walk out to the bleachers and sit in their shirt sleeves on a perfect afternoon. They’ll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they’ll watch the game and it will be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they’ll have to brush them away from their faces.”

(“Ray, when the bank opens in the morning, they’ll foreclose.”)

“People will come, Ray.”

(“You’re broke, Ray. You sell now or you lose everything!”)

“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But Baseball..has marked the time. This field, this game. It’s a part of our past. It reminds us of all that was once good, and could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.” James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in ‘Field of Dreams’




There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them. Casey Stengel

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. Yogi Berra

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
Yogi Berra

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengel

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
Yogi Berra

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Casey Stengel

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
Yogi Berra

Never make predictions, especially about the future.
Casey Stengel

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
Casey Stengel

Most ball games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Yogi Berra

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
Casey Stengel

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
Casey Stengel

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Yogi Berra

It gets late early out there.
Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot by just watching.
Yogi Berra