Jim Palmer quotes:

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  • I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.

  • Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.

  • Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

  • Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.

  • You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity.

  • One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

  • There are really only two options - you can feel things, or you can shut down. But, once you decide to feel things, you don't get to pick and choose what you feel.

  • Maybe being Jesus is simply seeing people as they truly are.

  • You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You are only as good as the team you have behind you.

  • Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

  • You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you.

  • There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.

  • There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether.

  • The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

  • Your memorabilia becomes more significant. It does put you in a different category.

  • I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I've learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

  • Being Jesus means that we go through life embracing it all fully and feeling it all deeply. That we don't hide and try to protect ourselves. That we live. That we show up. That we laugh. That we cry. That we hurt. That we heal. That we care. That we love. And then, that we wake up the next morning and sign up for it all over again.

  • Your time as the entrepreneur is worth hundreds of dollars an hour. If you are doing tasks you could hire out, those are stopping you from earning that kind of money.

  • I found that most people don't really want to know the truth. There are plenty of people who want to know the truth on their terms or require that the truth be contained within certain boundaries of comfort. But truth can never be known this way. You have to seek truth from a place of not knowing, and that can be a very threatening place because we think we already know the truth or we are afraid of what the truth might be.

  • Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you.

  • If you can't run, and the plays in front of you, you just can't get gay.

  • FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOU'RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

  • I put away that stuffed God I had all stitched up with my human understandings and fears. God is less formulaic and quantifiable as he once used to be, but experiencing the reality of his love is infinitely better than dragging that other one around.

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