Why Helmets Work

Pain will leave you, when you let go. - Jeremy Aldana

A full mind is an empty baseball bat. - Branch Rickey

Pain is temporary; quitting is forever. - Lance Armstrong

Cricket is basically baseball on valium. - Robin Williams

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. - Dutch Proverb

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer. - Joan Rivers

Champions expect pain, endure pain, and never complain. - Unknown

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa

It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. - Chang Ch'ao

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. - Tom Waits

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

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey. - Jeff Garlin

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. - George Bernard Shaw

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy. - Spider Robinson

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. - Kanye West

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. - Phyllis Diller

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. - Alexander Pope

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. - Dan Zevin

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you known it is healed. - Lyanla Vanzant

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. - Erma Bombeck

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. - Phyllis Diller

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. - Robert Frost

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. - Pearl S. Buck

I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet. - Phyllis Diller

Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting... it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity. - Marcus Aurelius

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. - Unknown

Just like a shoe, if someone is meant for you, they will fit just perfectly. No forcing, no struggling, and no pain. - Unknown

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. - Ted Williams

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? - Jim Bouton

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain. - Rick Baker

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. - Bill Vaughan

I'm one of those people who's not really turned on by baseball. My idea of a relief pitcher is one that's filled with martinis. - Dean Martin

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. - Casey Stengel

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! - Joseph Addison