Comiskey Quotes & Sayings

Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been. It is the greatest city because the fans will stick to a loser season after season. I have had my share of defeats, so I should know. — Charles Comiskey

Like standing in a creek with the water flowing against your legs, you know? — Daniel H. Wilson

The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder. — Charles Comiskey

Baseball is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than any other. I do not say that because I have made my living at it. I say it from the heart. — Charles Comiskey

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others. — Harvey V. Fineberg

Perhaps we as a culture have so emphasized the sexual dimension of maleness and femaleness that we have lost sight of the power of friendship — Andrew Comiskey

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Another related source of demonization is the homosexual relationship itself ... That attachment and communion are indeed inspired, but their source is demonic. — Andrew Comiskey

Our challenge with "The Office" and "Extras" was to get it completely scripted but to find a cast that could make it look like they were saying it for the first time. — Ricky Gervais

There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves. — Charles Comiskey

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it. — Ferdinand Mount

We can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.
These seem like contradictory principles, but they are not. Free will can take us far, suggests Dr. Schwartz's research, but it cannot carry us infinitely beyond our genetic limits. Bill Gates is never going to be Bill Clinton, no matter how he polishes his social skills, and Bill Clinton can never be Bill Gates, no matter how much time he spends alone with a computer.
We might call this the "rubber band theory" of personality. We are like rubber bands at rest. We are elastic and can stretch ourselves, but only so much. — Susan Cain

God makes it clear that his image bearers must live in dynamic communion with one another, thereby discovering and celebrating the good gift of one's own gender and that of the other. With a cross-shaped lens, we behold the beauty of man for woman and woman for man. None of us has ever lost that original design. No matter how broken we have become, we have never lost the potential to be good gifts for others! — Andrew Comiskey

Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God. — Andrew Comiskey

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame
living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption. — Andrew Comiskey

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance. — Charles Comiskey

Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female. — Andrew Comiskey

I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose. — Charles Comiskey

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult. — Sarah Parish

To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out. Crookedness and baseball do not mix. It has become immeasurably more popular as the years have gone by. It will be greater yet. This year, 1919, is the greatest season of them all. — Charles Comiskey

The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female. — Andrew Comiskey

Destiny might drop you off somewhere but it's your job to get where you're going, to decide your own ending ... — Rebecca Serle

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me. — Charles Comiskey

Daily devotional time is the single most important discipline in the Christian life. During that daily time, Jesus transforms us, feeds us, and gives us new revelation. On the other hand, not spending sufficient time with God can bring the agony of defeat. How often have we raced out of the house, hoping to accomplish a little bit more, only to return bruised, depressed, and hurt? When we start the day without time with our Lord, we lack power and joy to face the demands of life. — Joel Comiskey

It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir. — Charles Comiskey

With me, baseball will never grow old. In my own estimation, it may not have improved so much as many believe, but regardless of everything, it is the same good old game. If I have contributed to its success, I do not refer to this in the sense of boasting. I had to or fall out of the ranks. — Charles Comiskey

I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park. — Richard Roeper

I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a great team, one of the greatest ever organized. — Charles Comiskey

So far as we have any information about man, we know that he has always and everywhere been under the influence of dominating ideas. Any one who alleges that he is not can immediately be suspected of having exchanged a known form of belief for a variant which is less known both to himself and to others. — C. G. Jung