Ballparks Quotes - Page 3

• His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

  Neal Shusterman

  Wall, Lines, Territory

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get some big bleep bleepers that can hit the bleeping ball out of ballpark and you can't make any bleep bleeping mistakes.

  Earl Weaver

  Running, Mistake, Team

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• Why did I get married in a ballpark? My wife wanted a big diamond

  Mookie Wilson

  Wife, Married, Bigs

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• I want everybody to feel he has a chance to get into a game when he comes to the ballpark. I play guys when I want to so they'll be ready when I have to. I don't consider myself a motivator of players. I think it's an insult to a ballplayer to have to be motivated.

  Gene Mauch

  Player, Thinking, Games

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• One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.

  Tim McCarver

  Balls, One Thing

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• I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.

  Bowie Kuhn

  Baseball, Rip, Believe

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• There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.

  Rod Carew

  Cheer, Fun, Kids

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

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• Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Smell, Special

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• If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

  Matt Kemp

  Home, Thinking, Games

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• If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Book, Games

  "The Yogi Book: I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said". Book by Yogi Berra, 1998.

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• I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

  Barry Bonds

  Baseball, Dad, Boys

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

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• All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Effort, Trying, Wells

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• One hundred ten thousand ears in this ballpark, and he's got to hit my ear.

  Don Zimmer

  Yankees, Ears, Hundred

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• It gives us a lot of versatility and flexibility. Looking ahead, we've got a lot of good young players coming through the system. As they make their way, we'll have some tough decisions down the road. I'm just glad to have this one bat in our lineup that can drive in 100 runs, hit 25 to 30 home runs at least, and in our ballpark, maybe more.

  Tim Purpura

  Running, Home, Player

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• To suggest that the president should be censured because you don't agree with the legal advice he got seems to me to just -- to be out of the ballpark in terms of the way we can sensibly discuss and talk about issues like this.

  Jon Schmidt

  Issues, Advice, President

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• I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.

  Frank Miller

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 19, 2005.

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• We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

  Nicholas Stern

  Running, Risk, Half

  "Clash: Sir Nicholas Stern". Interview with David Biello, www.scientificamerican.com. November 26, 2007.

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• You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Thinking, Games

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• More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

  Pete Hamill

  Baseball, Games, May

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• I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Baseball, Loss

  Herbert Hoover, (2013). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941”, p.90, Read Books Ltd

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• I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.

  Kevin Costner

  Money, Practice, White

  "Fictional character: Crash Davis". "Bull Durham", www.imdb.com. 1988.

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• The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Games

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