Famous Baseball Quotes - Page 5

• Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Baseball, Dignity, Advantage

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything.

  Chris Chambliss

  Baseball, Fun, Missing

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• I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Baseball, Crazy

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• Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

  Woodie Held

  Baseball, Swings, Balls

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• It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

  Willie Stargell

  Baseball, Fun, Men

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• Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Inspirational, Baseball, Fathers Day

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• Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Curves, Balls

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• The one constant in life is baseball

  James Earl Jones

  Baseball, Life Is, Constant

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• One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.

  Edd Roush

  Baseball, Dark, League

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

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Baseball, Play

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

  Phil Linz

  Baseball, Fun, Games

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• The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

  Gabe Paul

  Baseball, Crisis, Great Things

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• The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

  Andre Dawson

  Baseball, Hockey, Feelings

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• The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

  Chuck Tanner

  Baseball, Winning, Games

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• Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Baseball, War

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

  William Feather

  Baseball, Fun, Games

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

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• Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

  Alvin Dark

  Baseball, Trying, Racist

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

  Rick Wise

  Baseball, Free Throw, Chamberlain

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• Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Baseball, Thinking, Idols

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• It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Play

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• I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

  George Brett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

  Johnny Bench

  Baseball, Bed, Slumps

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• I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

  Joe Garagiola

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Evil, Sports Psychology

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