Quotes on baseball
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
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Pete Hamill Quotes
The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.
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Lawrence Ritter Quotes
It actually giggles at you as it goes by.
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Rick Monday Quotes
The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.
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Gabe Paul Quotes
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
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Frederick B. Wilcox Quotes
Like those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there.
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Ray Miller Quotes
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
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Rogers Hornsby Quotes
If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it.
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Dick Allen Quotes
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.
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Leo Durocher Quotes
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
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Walt Whitman Quotes
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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Bill Veeck Quotes
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
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Joe Garagiola Quotes
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
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Bill Veeck Quotes
Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel.
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Roger Simon Quotes
I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
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Tom Clark Quotes
A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
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Joe DiMaggio Quotes
There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?
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Larry Anderson Quotes
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
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Dave Barry Quotes
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.
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Chuck Tanner Quotes
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
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Bob Lemon Quotes
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
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Author Unknown Quotes
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
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Steve Hovley Quotes
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
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Harry Caray Quotes
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
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Roger Kahn Quotes
It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.
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Mike Royko Quotes
Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.
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Jim Murray Quotes
Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease.
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Walter F. O'Malley Quotes
You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning.
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Bob Sarlette Quotes
Cricket is baseball on valium.
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Robin Williams Quotes
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
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Bill Veeck Quotes
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
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John Leonard Quotes
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.
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Nomar Garciaparra Quotes
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
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Rogers Hornsby Quotes
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
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Jim Murray Quotes
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
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Leo Durocher Quotes
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
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Mickey Mantle Quotes
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
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Alvin Dark Quotes
A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
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William C. Feather Quotes
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
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Al Gallagher Quotes
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.
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Neville Cardus Quotes
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
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Neville Cardus Quotes
There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
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Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
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.
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Casey Stengel Quotes
I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen.
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Bob Lemon Quotes
Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.
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Mike Royko Quotes
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
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George F. Will Quotes
Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion.
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Ernie Harwell Quotes
Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.
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Toby Harrah Quotes
The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.
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Bob Dole Quotes
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
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Mickey Mantle Quotes
The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash.
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Jim Murray Quotes
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
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Duke Snider Quotes
To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.
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Geoffrey Boycott Quotes
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
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Roy Campanella Quotes
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
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Ken Harrelson Quotes
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
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Charlie Lau Quotes
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
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Ted Williams Quotes
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
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Ray Fitzgerald Quotes
You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
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Jim Bouton Quotes
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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Earl Wilson Quotes
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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Barry Switzer Quotes
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
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Bill Veeck Quotes
A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more.
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Arthur Daley Quotes
It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL!
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Herbert H. Paper Quotes
The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.
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Andre Dawson Quotes
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
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Casey Stengel Quotes
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
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Author Unknown Quotes
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.
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Robert Benchley Quotes
That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em.
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Humphrey Bogart Quotes
It ain't nothin' till I call it.
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Bill Klem Quotes
It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.
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Yogi Berra Quotes
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
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Humphrey Bogart Quotes
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.
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Steve Busby Quotes
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.
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Reggie Jackson Quotes
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.
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Phil Linz Quotes
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off. The right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.
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Rick Maksian Quotes
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.
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Joe Schultz Quotes
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
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Red Smith Quotes
I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.
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Author Unknown Quotes
That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball.
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Bill Veeck Quotes
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
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George F. Will Quotes