Quotations From Jimmy Carter

"I was on the varsity basketball team in high school and, when I was in submarines, I was the pitcher on our baseball team. I learned there, obviously, that you have to be mutually dependent to achieve an identifiable goal, and you have to learn how to accept either defeat or victory with some degree of equanimity and look to the next contest with hope and anticipation. I think you have to yield sometimes your own selfish aspirations for the common good and be able to deal with one another in an open, sometimes competitive way, but not a personally antagonistic way. I think those are some of the lessons that you learn from team sports and I hope that I remember them"

"You should have had that one Curtis (US Secret Service / teammate)."

Quotations About Jimmy Carter

"All of the Secret Service guys were terrified that if they messed up (during the softball games) they might end up stationed in Ohio." - Anonymous

"I heard Jimmy Carter said he lost control of the U.S. government. That shows you how dumb he is. He thought he had control to begin with." - Bill Lee

"Next time, get your ass here before the seventh game." - Rick Dempsey

"One time I was playing third base on Carter's team and someone hit a pop fly in my direction. It was well out of range, bit I gave it a little chase anyway. When I got back to third base, he was standing there staring at me, and he said, 'You should have had that one, Curtis.' I never knew if he was serious or not." - Curtis Wilkie

"The Grin Will Not Win." - Media Slogan

"You may think this if for fun, but this is a grudge match. In 1976, Jimmy Carter got the Secret Service on his team and they consistently beat the media, but today he has just bums like us." - Sam Donaldson (they lost 5-4)

Quotations From & About Jimmy Carter