Quotes about base
baseball personality feelings
It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball. Richie Ashburn
baseball believe thinking
I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.
baseball unions marvin
Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis. Studs Terkel
baseball spring years
I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day. Steve Earle
baseball fun headache
It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches. Roger Maris
baseball years play
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.
baseball trying records
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
baseball doubt would-be
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.
baseball memories college
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it. Roger Clemens
baseball balls fence
He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.
baseball body fields
The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.
baseball games way
I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.
baseball motivation kind
Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.
baseball lightning bats
He bats like a lightning rod. W. P. Kinsella
baseball home games
Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
baseball hero games
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
baseball games coins
It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.
baseball growing-up firsts
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
baseball games pitching
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
baseball eye men
Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.
baseball life-changing ocean
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.
baseball games two
Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
baseball hockey fighting
I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey. Wayne Gretzky
baseball hockey games
I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
baseball dream careers
I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so much. Tony Oliva
baseball war mlb
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. Ty Cobb
baseball boys
That boy Mantle is a good one.
baseball men average
He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.
baseball fun play
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.
baseball size johnson
Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
baseball games bases
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
baseball hurt business
The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
baseball hundred percent
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.