Ballparks Quotes

• These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

  Bill Veeck

  Beautiful, Sports, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

  Harry Caray

  Baseball, Thinking, Days Off

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• I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all this. Writers, tape recorders, microphones, cameras, questions and more questions. Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one. I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

  Hank Aaron

  Hate, Home, Hair

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• I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Moving, Games

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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• I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Baseball, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Feels, Thrown

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• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  Wallace Stevens

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Travel

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.249, Vintage

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• The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

  Diogenes

  Beautiful, Freedom Of Speech, World

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• My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.

  Josephine de Beauharnais

  Beautiful, Garden, First Impression

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• I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Player, Wish

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.

  Al Kaline

  Sports, Team, Player

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• Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

  John Thorn

  Team, Player, Games

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• As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.

  Al Kaline

  Sports, Thinking, Games

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• Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.

  Bud Selig

  Mean, Clubs, Way

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• You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

  Johnny Bench

  Mean, Player, Looks

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• Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

  Roger Maris

  Baseball, Yankees, Years

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• All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

  Mickey Mantle

  Names, Sound, Fans

  Mickey Mantle (1986). “The Mick”, Jove Publications

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• I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

  Magic Johnson

  Baseball, Games, Enjoy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.

  Bob Feller

  Heart, Golf, Player

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• When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Rooms, Individualism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still ruin expensive suits going after foul balls that cost five dollars. Hitting streaks still make the network news and hot dogs still taste better at the ballpark than at home.

  Duke Snider

  Sports, Baseball, Dog

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that

  Simon Schama

  Love You, First Love, Magic

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• If the fans don’t wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop ‘em.

  Yogi Berra

  Fans, Ems, Ifs

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• The ballparks have gotten too crowded. That's why nobody goes to see the game anymore.

  Yogi Berra

  Silly, Games, Dumb

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