Famous Baseball Quotes - Page 4

• 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, Baseball, Athlete

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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, Baseball, Pitching

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

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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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• One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

  Nolan Ryan

  Beautiful, Baseball, Want

  Nolan Ryan (1990). “Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan”, Avon Books

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

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Dirty, Games

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  Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

  Babe Ruth, Bob Considine (1948). “The Babe Ruth story as told to Bob Considine: with 49 photos”

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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Change, Baseball

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• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Singles

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

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Cemetery

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

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• The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

  Dizzy Dean

  Funny, Baseball, Stupid

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

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• There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Winter, Mlb

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• Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Years

  Babe Ruth, Bob Considine (1948). “The Babe Ruth story as told to Bob Considine: with 49 photos”

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  Hank Aaron

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

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• You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

  Dale Berra

  Baseball, Father, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Baseball, Practice

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• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Poetry, Pitching

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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, Baseball, Beer

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• Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

  Mike Schmidt

  Thinking, Games, Noses

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• As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  Earl Weaver

  Sports, Baseball, Running

  Investiture Speech by Mark Becker, Georgia State University President, president.gsu.edu. October 20, 2009.

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• You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Memories, Twilight

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

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• I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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