Quotes about base
baseball believe winning
I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball. Rogers Hornsby
baseball heart america
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. Rogers Hornsby
baseball golf mlb
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. Rogers Hornsby
baseball ems world
I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em. Satchel Paige
baseball games ballparks
The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game. Satchel Paige
baseball hurt years
Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park. Satchel Paige
baseball games
I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me. Satchel Paige
baseball moving home
Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. Satchel Paige
baseball inspirational-sports motivational-sports
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE. Satchel Paige
baseball philosophy simple
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat. Satchel Paige
baseball team play
I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team. Sargent Shriver
baseball mcdonalds oakland
Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises. Sandy Alderson
baseball years body
I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body. Sandy Koufax
baseball way figures
He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another. Sandy Koufax
baseball winning trying
The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts. Sandy Koufax
baseball spring writing
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. Sandy Koufax
baseball games amusement
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands. William Howard Taft
baseball games clean
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game. William Howard Taft
baseball acceptance men
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay. William Feather
baseball years organization
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year. William Feather
baseball waiting use
The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat. Walter Johnson
baseball fastballs baseball-life
You can't hit what you can't see Walter Johnson
baseball running home
Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker. Walter Johnson
baseball fun dad
I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I'm not gonna make it working... I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way. Yogi Berra
baseball yankees isms
I didn't really say everything I said. Yogi Berra
baseball fun
It's fun; baseball's fun. Yogi Berra
baseball swings strikes
Swing at the strikes. Yogi Berra
baseball book games
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them? -Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, to baseball commissioner Bud Selig about lagging baseball attendance Ninety percent of the game is half mental. Yogi Berra
baseball knows
In baseball, you don't know nothin'. Yogi Berra
baseball men good-man
What makes a good man? Yogi Berra
baseball games twenties
I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. Yogi Berra
baseball games half
Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental. Yogi Berra
baseball future yankees
The future ain't what it used to be. Yogi Berra