Baseball History Quotes

• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

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

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• I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Golf, Mlb

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• I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

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• I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Spring

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

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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

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• I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

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• There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

  Charley Lau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

  Bob Lemon

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Mlb

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• During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Mean

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

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• I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

  Lou Gehrig

  Movie, Baseball, Men

  Farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, New York, N.Y., 4 July 1939.

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• Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

  Joe Torre

  Baseball, Games, League

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• In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Team, Years

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• I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Baseball, Strong

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• No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Baseball, Player

  "Andre Dawson Enters The Hall Of Fame" by Bob Warja, www.askmen.com.

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• After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

  Reggie Jackson

  Funny, Baseball, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record

  Alfonso Soriano

  Baseball, Running, Home

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