Opening Day Quotes

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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, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

  Mary Schmich

  Baseball, Disappointment, Hangover

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.220, Agate Digital

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• I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Years, Giving

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• Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

  Jean Ingelow

  Flower, Good Day, Light

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.264

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• There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

  George Vecsey

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  George Vecsey (1989). “A Year in the Sun: The Games, the Players, the Pleasure of Sports”, Crown Publishers

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• I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Giving, Television

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

  Willie Stargell

  Softball, Baseball, Mlb

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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  Walt Whitman

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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

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• It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Motivational, Summer, Softball

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

  Jim Leyland

  Song, Humorous, Player

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• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

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

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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

  Walt Whitman

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Inspiration, Rain

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• When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

  Bob Lemon

  Baseball, Kids, Law

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• [Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Heart, Green Fields

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

  Rob Sheffield

  Baseball, Race, President

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• Opening day -- or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it.

  Jim Bouton

  How You Feel, Opening, Feels

  Jim Bouton (1984). “Ball Four Plus Ball”, Scarborough House

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• Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

  Reggie Jackson

  Baseball, Ice Cream, Mlb

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was way more nervous on the opening day of the Ryder Cup than the first round of any major. Every Ryder Cup match is like being in the last group on Sunday in a major.

  Tom Lehman

  Sunday, Groups, Way

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• I hope my daughter, and one day my granddaughters, will be at Dodgers Opening Day.

  Mark Walter

  Daughter, One Day, Dodgers

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• That’s not me. I wouldn’t [take paternity leave.] Quite frankly, I would have said C-section before the season starts. I need to be at Opening Day. I’m sorry.

  Boomer Esiason

  Sorry, Needs, Said

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• He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.

  Lefty Gomez

  Two, Yankees, Way

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• Today was opening day for the new Congress in Washington. And Vice President Joe Biden swore in the new batch of White House fence jumpers.

  David Letterman

  White, House, President

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• There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

  George Brett

  Baseball, Blood, Years

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