Baseball Quotes - Page 17

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Athlete, Men

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

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• All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

  Babe Ruth

  Sock, Ask Me, Knows

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

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• The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

  Tris Speaker

  Boys, Bats, Tris

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

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• Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

  Edward Abbey

  Opportunity, Games, Offering

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• If you don't succeed at first, try pitching.

  Jack Harshman

  Trying, Pitching, Firsts

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• It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Competition, Isms

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• Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

  Tim McCarver

  Funny, Running, Team

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• Your life is a product of your thoughts, what you think about all day becomes the basis of your life.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Thinking, African American

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• Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Valium

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• Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

  Mary McGrory

  Soccer, Football, Nfl Football

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• To understand him you had to understand this: he wasn't human.

  Joe Dugan

  Humans

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• I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

  Mickey Mantle

  Care, Take A Deep Breath, Choke

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  No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Hockey, Winning, Mlb

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• Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Use, Problem, Reincarnation

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• I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.

  Hank Aaron

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.

  John Eskow

  Player, Emotional, Games

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  How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

  Happy Birthday, Fun, African American

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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• Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

  Dick Gregory

  Humorous, Men, White Man

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  Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

  Ted Williams

  Boys, Men, Games

  Ted Williams, Jim Prime (1998). “Ted Williams' Hit List”, Masters Press

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• You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

  Joaquin Andujar

  Games, Knows, One Word

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Time

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• Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

  Babe Ruth

  Games, Giving, World

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Europe

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• Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Home, Men

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