Baseball Quotes - Page 21

• I'd rather not throw the ball at all.

  Lefty Gomez

  Balls

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• Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.

  William Saroyan

  Art, Caring, Player

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• Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Talking, Yogi

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• Stick a fork in him. He's done.

  Leo Durocher

  Done, Sticks, Forks

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• I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?

  Branch Rickey

  Teacher, Men, Law

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• The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.

  Pete Rose

  Way, Ifs, I Can

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• Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.

  Studs Terkel

  Unions, Marvin, Suspects

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• When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

  Bill Veeck

  Rooms, Individualism, Ballparks

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

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• Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.

  Leo Durocher

  Running, Kill Me, Behinds

  Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.363, University of Chicago Press

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• It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.

  Roger Maris

  Fun, Headache, Has Beens

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• Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!

  Waite Hoyt

  Prayer, Children, Wife

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• Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.

  Warren Spahn

  Feet, Gentleman, Firsts

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• If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

  Bill Veeck

  Team, Player, Way

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• People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.

  Bill Veeck

  Men, People, Littles

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• Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

  Thomas Boswell

  Smell, Special, Cards

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• Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Athlete, Goal, Teens

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• I have never willingly chased a ball.

  Robert Morley

  Balls

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• If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Motivational Sports, Real, Winning

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• The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

  Graig Nettles

  Chance, Crash, Planes

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• The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

  Lawrence Ritter

  Player, Overrated, Underrated

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• If you're going to be lucky you've got to think lucky.

  Luke Appling

  Thinking, Lucky, Ifs

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• It's amazing what you can do in this game with a heart and a brain

  Buddy Bell

  Heart, Games, Brain

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• It's baseball. You've got to be the same guy every day, no matter if you go 4-for-4 or 0-for-4.

  Gordon Beckham

  Guy, Matter, Ifs

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• If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

  Mark McGwire

  Want, Firsts, Know Yourself

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• Never say never in this game because crazy stuff can happen.

  Mark Buehrle

  Crazy, Games, Stuff

  "Perfection: Buehrle tosses perfect game for ChiSox" by Andrew Seligman, www.foxnews.com. July 24, 2009.

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