Top baseball Quotes Collection
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I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.Collection: Baseball
They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.Collection: Baseball
The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.Collection: Baseball
People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!Collection: Baseball
I led the league in go get 'em next time.Collection: Baseball
When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.Collection: Baseball
I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.Collection: Baseball
Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.Collection: Baseball
When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling betterCollection: Baseball
The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.Collection: Baseball
Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.Collection: Baseball
Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.Collection: Baseball
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.Collection: Baseball
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.Collection: Baseball
Feeling is to lose a major league game.Collection: Baseball
My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the best seat in the house, right behind the Dodger's dugout. That's the only advantage that I can see about being dead: You get the best seat in the house.Collection: Baseball
There are only two places in this league, First Place and No Place.Collection: Baseball
A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.Collection: Baseball
If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.Collection: Baseball
Fenway is the essence of baseballCollection: Baseball
These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that. Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They’d be telling our soldiers: ‘That’s enough. You’ve fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!’Collection: Baseball
It's (baseball) on the radio and in the newspapers every day, the only game you can follow on that basis. From whatever arm's length you choose, it's always there.Collection: Baseball
There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.Collection: Baseball
Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.Collection: Baseball
Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.Collection: Baseball
The phrasing didn't work as well.Collection: Baseball
So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.Collection: Baseball
Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher.Collection: Baseball
Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.Collection: Baseball
He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.Collection: Baseball
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.Collection: Baseball
I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.Collection: Baseball
I do the work just because I enjoy it on the day, working with the guys. For me, it's like going to play a game of baseball: you've got your teammates, you get to do something that's fun, hopefully, and whatever happens with that stuff is in the cosmos someplace.Collection: Baseball
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.Collection: Baseball
I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination and technically hit a baseball.Collection: Baseball
Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free. We just played baseball because it was fun.Collection: Baseball
It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball.Collection: Baseball
The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving heart care operations. I couldn't help but think that in another life, one of these kids could be my own son. If it wasn't for baseball, I may have remained in the Dominican Republic and who knows where life would have taken me. It was then that I knew that I had to use the gift that I received, to play baseball, to do whatever I could to give back.Collection: Baseball
Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.Collection: Baseball
Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.Collection: Baseball
Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest of the day. I like to keep work at work. It's pretty easy for me to live a pretty normal life. I like to coach and I like to sit in a crowd at a baseball game. No one really recognizes me unless I'm walking around a beach half-naked in a suit with my name on it. Of course, I have it easier than Kerri. When you're 6-3 you tend to stick out a little bit.Collection: Baseball
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.Collection: Baseball
I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.Collection: Baseball
The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.Collection: Baseball
I've fallen in love with baseball.Collection: Baseball
The adrenaline is pumping before or during a game - you're excited, you're anxious. But the biggest things are just having fun and being confident. There really is no alternative because you just can't be negative. And a huge part of developing that confidence is by working hard every day, and I don't think that is limited to the baseball field. I think that bleeds over to all aspects of anything that you're doing or working on in life.Collection: Baseball
I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.Collection: Baseball
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.Collection: Baseball
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.Collection: Baseball
Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.Collection: Baseball