Baseball Quotes - Page 11

• Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Boys, Men, Self

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• The clock doesn?t matter in baseball.

  Herb Caen

  Matter, Clock

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• Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

  Casey Stengel

  Years, Games, Ems

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• Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

  Robert J. LeRoy

  Motivational, Men, Average

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• Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

  Cleo Moore

  Fighting, Thinking, Games

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• Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Pay, Goods

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• Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Moving, Home

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• The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

  Tom Seaver

  Rising, Fastballs

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• I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

  Mickey Mantle

  Yankees, Bats, Looks

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

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• Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Serious, Reform, Problem

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• I led the league in go get 'em next time.

  Bob Uecker

  League, Ems, Next

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Yankees, Isms

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• Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

  Erma Bombeck

  Gossip, Pastime

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• The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

  Dizzy Dean

  Funny, Stupid, Doctors

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

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• In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  H. L. Mencken

  Music, Italian, Opera

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• I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Softball, This Generation

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 10 June 1982

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• Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Stealing, License

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• If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Crazy, Thinking

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• Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

  Bruce Catton

  America, League, Pieces

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• When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

  Ty Cobb

  Fun, Struggle, Play

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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• When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

  Vance Law

  Slumps, Looks, Gloves

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• When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

  Tim McCarver

  Feet, Hitting, Inches

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• The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

  Bill Veeck

  Games, Too Late, Seasons

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• Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Fun, Whole Life

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