Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

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• John D. Voelker:

  I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew

• John D. Voelker:

  I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I

• John D. Voelker:

  I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

• Lou Gehrig:

  I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood

• Lou Gehrig:

  In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and fin

• Lou Gehrig:

  The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

• Lou Gehrig:

  There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

• Lou Gehrig:

  What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? Y

• Lou Gehrig:

  When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter

• Lou Gehrig:

  When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed exist