Baseball Quotes - Page 2

• Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

  Jim Bouton

  Teamwork, Sports, Football

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• I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

  Roberto Clemente

  Thinking, Long, Would Be

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

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

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• How can you not be romantic about baseball?

  Billy Beane

  Best Baseball

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Athlete, Squares

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• People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Spring, Writing

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• Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Athlete

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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• I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

  Babe Ruth

  Crowds, Strikeouts, Heard

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• Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

  Duke Snider

  Motivational, Swings, Balls

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• Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

  Ken Harrelson

  Sports, Team, Balls

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• Find something good within your life and give every ounce of positivity you have towards it, then watch how your life changes.

  Leon Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

  Roy Campanella

  Boys, Men, Play

  Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

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• Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

  Alvin Dark

  Sunshine, Player, Chicago

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• If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Memorable, Kids

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• I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Golf, Mlb, Play

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• A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

  Earl Wilson

  Motivational Sports, Games, Nine

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• If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

  Don Drysdale

  Hate, Games, Mad

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• I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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

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• I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Games

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• Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Hair, Pitching

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  Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Satchel Paige

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Gratitude

  Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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• Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

  Willie Stargell

  Coffee, Trying, Drink

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• Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

  Sharon Olds

  Blow, World, Reassuring

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• The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

  Don Drysdale

  Mlb, Hitting, Pitching

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