Baseball Life Quotes

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  Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

  Babe Ruth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

  Bo Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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  My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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  A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

  Jackie Robinson

  Inspirational, Life, Basketball

  "I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson". Book by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, 1972.

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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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• Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Yankees, League

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• The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Opportunity, Games

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  You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

  Pete Rose, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Pete Rose on hitting: how to hit better than anybody”, Perigee

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• 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 swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Swings, Hitting Home Runs

  "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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• Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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• Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

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

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• The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

  Bob Lemon

  Friendship, Sports, Baseball

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• The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Motivational, Summer, Softball

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.

  Al Gallagher

  Baseball, Order, Three

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• It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Football

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• There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

  Lou Gehrig

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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

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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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• When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

  Willie Stargell

  Softball, Baseball, Mlb

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• More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Illusion

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• It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.

  Chuck Tanner

  Baseball, Winning, Mlb

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• [Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Heart, Green Fields

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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