Baseball Quotes - Page 5

• Baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

  Terrence Mann

  Past, Games, People

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• Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Play, Trying

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• Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

  Confucius

  Men, Balls, Four

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• I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

  Bill Veeck

  Moving, Games, Years

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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• Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

  Phil Linz

  Fun, Games, Beats

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• Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.

  Toby Harrah

  Girl, Statistics, Bikinis

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• Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

  Bill Klem

  Games

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• My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

  Rickey Henderson

  Mom, Football, Mother

  Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Speech, delivered 26 July 2009, Cooperstown, OH

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• Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

  Ernie Harwell

  Softball, Drama, Ballet

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• If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

  George Carlin

  Team, Stupid, Play

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking

  Gene Mauch

  Motivational, Slumps, Losing

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• I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Motivational Sports

  "10 Confessions Even Less Shocking Than Floyd Landis's" by Sean Cunningham, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.

  Hank Greenwald

  Ties, Three, Baptists

  "Baseball lists: funny lines, great nicknames" by Bruce Jenkins, www.sfgate.com. April 3, 2016.

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• Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.

  Louise Brown

  Funny, Running, Dog

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• He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Running, Light

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• Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Mean, Awards

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• Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Art, Pitching

  "Involvements : One Journalist's Place in the World". Book by Colman McCarthy (p. 243), 1984.

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• Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

  Willie Mays

  Games, Pace, Violence

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• I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Jobs, Famous Baseball

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• I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Mother, Race

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• Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

  Casey Stengel

  Hurt, Sex, Player

  "L. M. Boyd" by Boyd, "The Sioux City Journal", p. A17, April 20, 1981.

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• Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Running, Art

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• I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

  Bob Uecker

  Careers, Cards, Funny Baseball

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books

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• In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

  Earl Weaver

  Sports, Men, Games

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• You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.

  Satchel Paige

  Motivational, Winning, Coaching

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