Quotes About Enthusiasm

It's one thing to wear jerseys at games, which fans have been doing in great numbers for 30 years, dressing as if they might be summoned from the stands on a moment's notice to pinch-run. But those same jerseys are now omnipresent on airplanes, in restaurants, in doctor's waiting rooms.

My thing is to get up there and have a good time and give the fans all you can and appreciate them spending their money and being in the stands - and just be appreciative of them cheering when you come onstage.

I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.

I want to get in there and jump in the stands and dive for every loose ball.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

Renew your passions daily.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.