Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Baseball, Real, Player

  "Baseball's Greatest Quotes". Book by Paul Dickson, 1991.

• One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Baseball, Football

• And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Baseball, Football

• I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Baseball, Running

• The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Baseball, Attitude

• I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Baseball, Believe, Tradition

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961”, p.684, Best Books on

• Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Baseball, Disappointment, Team

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