Baseball Player Quotes - Page 9

• When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me. Not that I wouldn't rather make love, but the work has become a habit.

  Shel Silverstein

  Girl, Baseball, Writing

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• It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.

  Philip Yancey

  Baseball, Art, Father

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• It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Player, Two

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• I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

  Willem de Kooning

  Baseball, Team, Writing

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.

  Paul Ormerod

  Baseball, Player, Needs

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball.

  Jose Peralta

  Baseball, Pride, Player

  "Mets Set for Merengue Night Honor - GM Minaya Accepts State Citation for Club's Outreach Efforts" by Ben Couch, MLB.com,

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• Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company." Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Baseball, Baby, Player

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• Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.

  Charlie Day

  Baseball, Teacher, Regret

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Baseball, Ambition, Player

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• When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.

  Roberto Clemente

  Baseball, Player, Wanted

  "A Conversation with Clemente" with Sam Nover, aired on WIIC-TV in Pittsburgh, October 08, 1972.

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• I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Baseball, Jobs, Player

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• Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

  Phil Knight

  Baseball, Dream, Team

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• The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Player, Ranking

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Tennis Now Interview, bleacherreport.com. November 30, 2010.

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• I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Athlete, Player

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• I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

  Tim DeKay

  Baseball, School, Player

  "‘White Collar’ Star Tim DeKay On Directing, Playing Catch In Yankee Stadium And More". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2012.

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• It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.

  David Cone

  Baseball, Thinking, Player

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• I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

  Daniel Sunjata

  Baseball, Blessed, Character

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• I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

  Muddy Waters

  Baseball, Hurt, Player

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• I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

  Roberto Clemente

  Baseball, Player, Born

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

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