Ben Fountain Quotes

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have: the feeling of always being at the beginning.

My emotions are strong when I start the season.

I think for a lot of people, when you're starting something new, everyone is so excited about it.

The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.

People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

I'm excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for... I'm excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1.

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

What I love best in life is new starts.

In baseball, there's always the next day.

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Now it's on to May, and you know about me and May.

There's nothing like Opening Day in Dodger Stadium. You can't really describe it.

It's always exciting to get back out there with the teammates and start a new year and get on the field.

The more Opening Days the better. It never gets old. It's one of those things where as it comes you embrace it, get ready, you still get those butterflies, which means you care.

But I'm always, always, always excited about new things.

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.