Top baseball Quotes Collection - Page 3

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Image of Jimmy Breslin
Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.
- Jimmy Breslin
Collection: Baseball
Image of Jim Abbott
My advice is that you go and do something that you are really driven to do. I loved to play baseball and, because I loved it, I practiced it. Some of us have limitations, but if you are passionate about something and if you have the drive, then you can accomplish it.
- Jim Abbott
Collection: Baseball
Image of Jim Abbott
I loved throwing a baseball. It is so important to find something in life you feel crazy about. Because you are so passionate you naturally practice. The hard work that it takes to do something well will come easily.
- Jim Abbott
Collection: Baseball
Image of Jim Abbott
What's cool about baseball is you don't have to see someone for years, but when you see them, you just hustle up and give them a big hug. Those friendships endure.
- Jim Abbott
Collection: Baseball
Image of John Thorn
Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.
- John Thorn
Collection: Baseball
Image of John Thorn
I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.
- John Thorn
Collection: Baseball
Image of John Thorn
Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.
- John Thorn
Collection: Baseball
Image of Warren Spahn
Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.
- Warren Spahn
Collection: Baseball
Image of Warren Spahn
The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.
- Warren Spahn
Collection: Baseball
Image of Nate Silver
Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
- Nate Silver
Collection: Baseball
Image of Ryne Sandberg
In baseball, there's always the next day
- Ryne Sandberg
Collection: Baseball
Image of Vin Scully
The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.
- Vin Scully
Collection: Baseball
Image of Vin Scully
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.
- Vin Scully
Collection: Baseball
Image of Dale Murphy
Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.
- Dale Murphy
Collection: Baseball
Image of Eliezer Yudkowsky
If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Collection: Baseball
Image of Neil Simon
Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.
- Neil Simon
Collection: Baseball
Image of David Lubar
A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.
- David Lubar
Collection: Baseball
Image of Luke Scott
In college, I was like most young men, doing what pleased me and looking out mainly for my own interest. I had success in baseball and was very popular in school but all these things, which the world chases after, left me empty and unfulfilled. Through a series of trials and difficult times, the Lord opened my eyes to my sin and what would truly fulfill me. June 9, 2001, I received forgiveness and the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ.
- Luke Scott
Collection: Baseball
Image of Branch Rickey
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
- Branch Rickey
Collection: Baseball
Image of Branch Rickey
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.
- Branch Rickey
Collection: Baseball
Image of Branch Rickey
It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.
- Branch Rickey
Collection: Baseball
Image of Branch Rickey
I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?
- Branch Rickey
Collection: Baseball
Image of Branch Rickey
He's the best prospect I've ever seen.
- Branch Rickey
Collection: Baseball
Image of Donald Hall
Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.
- Donald Hall
Collection: Baseball
Image of Donald Hall
Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.
- Donald Hall
Collection: Baseball
Image of Donald Hall
For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.
- Donald Hall
Collection: Baseball
Image of Donald Hall
You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.
- Donald Hall
Collection: Baseball
Image of Nolan Ryan
My ability to throw a baseball was a gift. It was a God-given gift. And I am truly appreciative of that gift.
- Nolan Ryan
Collection: Baseball
Image of Nolan Ryan
Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.
- Nolan Ryan
Collection: Baseball
Image of Heywood Broun
The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."
- Heywood Broun
Collection: Baseball
Image of Heywood Broun
When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."
- Heywood Broun
Collection: Baseball
Image of John Oliver
Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.
- John Oliver
Collection: Baseball
Image of Mariano Rivera
That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.
- Mariano Rivera
Collection: Baseball
Image of Mariano Rivera
Baseball was just the avenue that the Lord used so I can provide for my family.
- Mariano Rivera
Collection: Baseball
Image of Harry Caray
Hello again, everybody... It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.
- Harry Caray
Collection: Baseball
Image of Harry Caray
It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!
- Harry Caray
Collection: Baseball
Image of Harry Caray
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
- Harry Caray
Collection: Baseball
Image of Harry Caray
Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans.
- Harry Caray
Collection: Baseball
Image of Harry Caray
They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.
- Harry Caray
Collection: Baseball
Image of Tom Trebelhorn
The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.
- Tom Trebelhorn
Collection: Baseball
Image of Ben Chandler
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
- Ben Chandler
Collection: Baseball
Image of Jim Brosnan
When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.
- Jim Brosnan
Collection: Baseball
Image of Rick Monday
It actually giggles at you as it goes by.
- Rick Monday
Collection: Baseball
Image of Rick Monday
What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over.
- Rick Monday
Collection: Baseball
Image of Roger Maris
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.
- Roger Maris
Collection: Baseball
Image of Roger Maris
It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.
- Roger Maris
Collection: Baseball
Image of Jay Baer
Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.
- Jay Baer
Collection: Baseball
Image of Brent Musburger
Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.
- Brent Musburger
Collection: Baseball
Image of Joe Schultz
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.
- Joe Schultz
Collection: Baseball