Quotes about base
baseball play legs
Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight. Jacques Barzun
baseball years next
The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone. Francisco Rodriguez
baseball eye play
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls. Jim Fowler
baseball growing-up league
As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up. Jim Evans
baseball school umpires
Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.
baseball home majority
My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.
baseball giving trying
What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball. Jeremy London
baseball thinking games
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. Jennifer Garner
baseball kids gun
The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied. Jeff Cooper
baseball team believe
Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues. George Will
baseball team games
Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
baseball community mind
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
baseball umpires islands
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
baseball heaven mortals
Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.
baseball ties progression
It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.
baseball years yankees
Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.
baseball athens democratic
Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.
baseball book weather
(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.
baseball spring florida
America overflows with specious 'victims' demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone as defined in the rulebook. What a concept.
baseball games long
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?
baseball thinking trivia
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
baseball years sixteen
A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first? Jerry Spinelli
baseball games tvs
Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat. Jerry Seinfeld
baseball hate men
If you want to get to know me, you have to get off the baseball field. Because when I'm on the field, and in the clubhouse, I'm doing what I'm paid to do, what I love to do, and man, I hate it when I fail. Jeff Kent
baseball hate dull
I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow Jeff Jarvis
baseball jobs play
The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.
baseball kids hands
I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray...And I don't want kids to be like me because I have one hand. I want kids to be like Jim Abbott because he's a baseball pitcher at Michigan and he won the Big Ten Championship game, and not because I can field a bunt and throw to first. Jim Abbott
baseball years giving
What's cool about baseball is you don't have to see someone for years, but when you see them, you just hustle up and give them a big hug. Those friendships endure.
baseball kids games
I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.
baseball crazy hard-work
I loved throwing a baseball. It is so important to find something in life you feel crazy about. Because you are so passionate you naturally practice. The hard work that it takes to do something well will come easily.
baseball play advice
My advice is that you go and do something that you are really driven to do. I loved to play baseball and, because I loved it, I practiced it. Some of us have limitations, but if you are passionate about something and if you have the drive, then you can accomplish it.
baseball team school
I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school. Jesse McCartney
baseball redneck might
You might be a redneck if you own at least 20 baseball hats. Jeff Foxworthy