Baseball Quotes - Page 4

• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Cemetery, Ifs

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

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• What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

  Leo Durocher

  Mother, Sorry, Winning

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

  Bob Lemon

  Funny, Kids, Made

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• I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

  Bob Lemon

  Inspirational Sports, Mlb, Long

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• You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

  Duke Snider

  Looks, Pitching, Plates

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• In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

  Tom Seaver

  Leadership, Sports, Numbers

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

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• The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.

  Rick Wise

  Free Throw, Chamberlain, Designated Hitter

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• Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.

  Steve Busby

  Summer, Thinking, Games

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• A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

  William Feather

  Fun, Games, Company

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

  Bill Lee

  Change, Beer, Buttons

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• Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.

  Rocky Bridges

  Motivational, Running, Team

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• There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

  Honus Wagner

  Famous Baseball, Greatest Baseball, Ifs

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

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• I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

  Curt Schilling

  Kids, Careers, Wife

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• Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

  Branch Rickey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• I'd say he's done more than that.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Done, Isms

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.81, Workman Publishing

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• Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

  Pete Hamill

  Morning, Kids, Curves

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  You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Birthday, Sports, Party

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Inspirational, Heart, America

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• Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

  Willie Mays

  Motivational, Sports, Keys

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

  Lou Gehrig

  Reading, Past, Men

  Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

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• Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?

  Shoeless Joe Jackson

  Motivational, Hey, Mouths

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• The best thing about being a Yankee is getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day. The worst thing about being a Yankee? Getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day

  Graig Nettles

  Play, Yankees, Watches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Vices, Hitting

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)

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• There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

  Bill Veeck

  Winter, Mlb, Two

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• So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Two

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