Baseball Quotes - Page 13

• Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

  Joe Garagiola

  Curves, Balls, Pitching

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• I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Strong, Games

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• In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

  Rickey Henderson

  Eye, Body, Hips

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• I had never been to second base.

  Don Carman

  Funny

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• I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

  Vin Scully

  Games, Guy, Challenges

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• God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

  Shoeless Joe Jackson

  Men, Judging, Earth

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• The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

  Michael Lewis

  Sports, Father, Son

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

  Babe Ruth

  Years, Hell, Hoover

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• I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Long, Broken, Records

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• Baseball has been very good to me.

  Roberto Clemente

  Very Good, Has Beens

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• I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Giving, Tough

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

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• It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

  Casey Stengel

  Running, Home, Done

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• I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.

  Casey Stengel

  Four, Broke, Impression

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  The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

  Casey Stengel

  Sex, Player, Night

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• Baseball is a man maker.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Men, Makers

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• Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Motivational, Encouragement

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• Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

  Tommy Henrich

  Knowing, Balls, Pleasure

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• The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

  Gabe Paul

  Famous Baseball, Crisis, Great Things

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• A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

  Max De Pree

  Team, Ideas, Giants

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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  Walt Whitman

  Sports, Games, Durham

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• I just want to play baseball.

  David Ortiz

  Play, Want

  "David Ortiz talks free agency, Sox mess". Interview with Colleen Dominguez, www.espn.com. October 13, 2011.

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• This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Mlb, Games

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  When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Birthday, Coaching

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• Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

  Warren Spahn

  Sports, Mlb, Upset

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

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• Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

  Lou Brock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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