Baseball Quotes - Page 18

• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Athlete, Player

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• Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Yankees, Use

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.44, Workman Publishing

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• It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.

  Mike Royko

  Sports, Female, Flannels

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• One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

  Robert Benchley

  Running, Men, Games

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, Glendower Media

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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 Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

  Bob Lemon

  Kids, Law, Slumps

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• A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.

  Ken Singleton

  Men, Lord, Walks

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• If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

  Sam Rutigliano

  Football, Spring, Wanted

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• People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.

  Johnny Damon

  Games, People, Heaven

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• The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

  Ty Cobb

  Motivational, Money, Player

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  Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

  Ty Cobb

  Sports, Pitching, Theory

  "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

  Rickey Henderson

  Dirty, Games, Coaching

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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

  Yogi Berra

  Yankees, League, Parent

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• I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

  Roberto Clemente

  Giving, Want, Remembered

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• I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

  Eric Davis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Games

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

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• The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

  Jim Evans

  Jobs, Play, People

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• Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

  Roger Kahn

  Summer, Dream, Afternoon

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• Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

  Bill Lee

  Kids, Games, Fundamentals

  Bill Lee (2003). “The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History”, Triumph Books (IL)

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• Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

  Robert Smith

  Umpires, Two, Never Trust

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• You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

  Bill Lee

  Two, People, Brain

  Bill Lee (2003). “The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History”, Triumph Books (IL)

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• The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

  Ted Williams

  Fun, Sound, Bats

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• As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.

  Carl Everett

  Yankees, Long, Matter

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• Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.

  George Will

  Beautiful, Records, Care

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  You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

  Pete Rose, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Pete Rose on hitting: how to hit better than anybody”, Perigee

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• Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Sports, Stars

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