Baseball Quotes - Page 12

• Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

  Red Barber

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Games, Wife

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• Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.

  Richard Gilman

  Games, Ghost, Fraternity

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• Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

  Norm Cash

  Mean, Years, Two

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• Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

  Charlie Finley

  Success, Softball, Sports

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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, Winning

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• I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

  Joe Garagiola

  Sports, Player, Gamer

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• There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

  Leo Durocher

  Running, Five, Can Do

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• The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

  Lawrence Ritter

  Yesterday, Going For It, Today

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• It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

  Bill Veeck

  Attitude, Self, Cease

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• Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.

  Walter O'Malley

  Disease

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• England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

  Robert Benchley

  England And America, Games, Play

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• They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

  George Will

  Islands, Umpires, Justice

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• [A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Curves, Giving, Knuckleballs

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• Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Thinking, Idols, Play

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• Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.

  Thomas Boswell

  Art, Hands, Obsessive Compulsive

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• I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

  Sargent Shriver

  Team, Play, Foxes

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• I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.

  Rich Donnelly

  Team, Funny Baseball

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• Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

  Bill Veeck

  Paper, Clip, Changed

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• You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

  Lou Brock

  Sports, Errors, Games

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• A full mind is an empty bat.

  Branch Rickey

  Mind, Bats, Empty

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• What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

  Babe Ruth

  Success, Sports, Games

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• Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

  John Thorn

  Player, Games, Reflecting Upon

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• A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

  Joe Morgan

  Games, Stealing, Enough

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Goals Dreams, Yankees, Clear Goals

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