Baseball Quotes - Page 14

• Back, back, back, back. Gone.

  Chris Berman

  Gone, Home Run

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

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• One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

  Enos Slaughter

  Cutting, Years, Salary

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• Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

  Brooks Robinson

  Faith, Player, People

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• When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

  Ty Cobb

  Games, Bases, Kicks

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

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• I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.

  Mickey Rivers

  Worry, African American, Words Of Wisdom

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• If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

  Tom Seaver

  Thinking, Bigs, Deals

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

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• I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

  Brooks Robinson

  Men, Games, Play

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• So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

  Yogi Berra

  Beauty, Yankees, Isms

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

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• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Motivational, Team

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

  Paul Gallico

  Punishment, Games, Neat And Tidy

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.

  Chuck Tanner

  Winning, Mlb, Losing

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• The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

  Chuck Tanner

  Winning, Games, League

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• Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

  Joe Schultz

  Boys, Squares, Bats

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• Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

  Pat Conroy

  Wine, Numbers, Fans

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• I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

  George Brett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Years

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• Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

  Leo Durocher

  Giving, Diving, Nice Guys Finish Last

  Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

  Leo Durocher

  Inspiration, Rain, Mlb

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• Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, War, Games

  "For Feller, Navy was easy decision". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. November 12, 2009.

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• It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

  Jim Abbott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.

  Johnny Bench

  Inspirational, Honesty, Cocky

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• You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Encouraging, Self Esteem

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• Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Knowing, African American

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• If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Relationship, Future

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