I Believe

From the opening narration by Annie Savoy in the movie Bull Durham:

I believe in the Church of Baseball.
I've tried all the major religions, and most of the minor ones.
I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan.
I know things.
For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball.
When I heard that, I gave Jesus a chance.
But it just didn't work out between us.
The Lord laid too much guilt on me.
I prefer metaphysics to theology.
You see, there's no guilt in baseball, and it's never boring... which makes it like sex.
There's never been a ballplayer slept with me who didn't have the best year of his career.
Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate.
Besides, I'd never sleep with a player hitting under .250...
not unless he had a lot of RBIs and was a great glove man up the middle.

I've tried 'em all, I really have,
and the only church that truly feeds the soul,
day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

Annie Savoy: These are the ground rules. I hook up with one guy a season. Usually takes me a couple weeks to pick the guy - kinda my own spring training. And, well, you two are the most promising prospects of the season so far, so I just thought we should kinda get to know each other.

Crash Davis: Time out. Why do you get to choose?

Annie Savoy: What?

Crash Davis: Why do you get to choose? I mean, why don't I get to choose, why doesn't he get to choose?

Annie Savoy: Well, actually, nobody on this planet ever really chooses each other. I mean, it's all a question of quantum physics, molecular attraction, and timing. Why, there are laws we don't understand that bring us together and tear us apart. Uh, it's like pheromones. You get three ants together, they can't do dick. You get 300 million of them, they can build a cathedral.
[Crash laughs]

Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: So is somebody going to go to bed with somebody or what?

Annie Savoy: Honey, you are a regular nuclear meltdown. You better cool off. Ha ha, ha ha!

[to Crash]
Annie Savoy: Oh, where are you going?

Crash Davis: After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.

Annie Savoy: What do you believe in, then?

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Crash Davis: Well, I believe in the soul, the c##k, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
[pause]

Crash Davis: Goodnight.

Annie Savoy: Oh my. Crash...

Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: Hey, Annie, what's all this molecule stuff?