Baseball Quotes

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  Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  Babe Ruth

  Motivational Sports, Games, World

  Babe Ruth, Bob Considine (1948). “The Babe Ruth story as told to Bob Considine: with 49 photos”

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• After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Running, Home

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

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• You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

  Albert Einstein

  Sports, Faster, Teach

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  Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

  Babe Ruth

  Success, Fear, Crazy

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• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Inspirational Sports, Confusing

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2017

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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

  Opportunity, Games, Yesterday

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• The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.

  James Earl Jones

  Motivational, Army, Past

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• When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Real, Player, Boys

  "Baseball's Greatest Quotes". Book by Paul Dickson, 1991.

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• I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.

  Ron Shelton

  Jesus, Believe, Mushrooms

  "Fictional character: Annie Savoy". "Bull Durham", 1988.

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  Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

  Babe Ruth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Sports, Favors

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• God, I just love baseball.

  Robert Redford

  Baseball Love

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

  Bryant Gumbel

  Softball, Sports, Hitting

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  Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

  Satchel Paige

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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, Spring, Athlete

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

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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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• Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

  Jacques Barzun

  Team, Heart, School

  God's Country and Mine ch. 8 (1954)

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• I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

  Tony La Russa

  Sports, Character, Clubs

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

  Bob Lemon

  Friendship, Sports, Strong

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• In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

  Curt Schilling

  Inspirational, Motivational, Balls

  "Q&A with game creator Curt Schilling". Interview with Mike Snider, www.usatoday.com. February 7, 2012.

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• The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

  Steve Garvey

  Sports, Athlete, Names

  "There's No I in Team, But Me Plays a Big Role" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2012.

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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, Inspirational Sports, World

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

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• My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

  David Ortiz

  Mom, Mother, Games

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• Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

  Bill Veeck

  Basketball, Football, Games

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  Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Rain, Winning

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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