Quotes about base
baseball home college
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. A. Bartlett Giamatti
baseball people know-me
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
baseball
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
baseball race common-decency
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
baseball memories twilight
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
baseball player america
The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.
baseball dislocation whole
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
baseball heart green-fields
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
baseball believe law
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
baseball games literature
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
baseball talking yogi
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
baseball home journey
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
baseball teacher games
That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there. Adrian Gonzalez
baseball play-hard perfect
I'm not perfect. Nobody's perfect. But I love baseball and I love to play hard. Adrian Beltre
based consider half last organize playing schedule season solely start strength team tool
We start with the win/loss record, and the strength of schedule for the team, and its opponent's strength of schedule. We also consider RPI, but a team is not in or out based solely on RPI. It is just a tool we use to organize the information. We also look at how well they are playing in the last half of the season to see if the team is improving.
base good hard last putting start three weeks
We've been working hard the last three weeks on conditioning. We've got a good base and now we want to start putting things together.
based buying charts chord hear jazz kept music pop records relationship solos structure swing underlying
I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that. Harvey Pekar
baseball player reality
It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary. Alex Rodriguez
baseball people take-me
Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?
baseball strong done
I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been in a very strong, dominant position. And I felt that if I did my work as I've done since I was, you know, a rookie back in Seattle, I didn't have a problem competing at any level. So, no.
baseball fields born
With what has occurred in my life, the baseball field is where I feel most comfortable. That's what I feel I was born to do and it's what I do best.
baseball responsibility want
I want to be known as Dominican-that's what I am, 100 percent ... I have a duty and responsibility to continue the legacy of Dominicans in baseball.
baseball
Baseball has a funny way to tap you on the shoulder when you least expect it and tells you it's the end.
baseball play singers
I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.
based became believed misery saw
I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that. Fay Wray
base respect though
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
based catch flight lived midnight return sunday waste work
Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday. Wayne Huizenga
bases buffer country critical example fort preserving protect provide seek successful zone
The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges. Wayne Allard
based human minimize opportunity whenever
Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it. William T. Vollmann
based canada charles death guy learned lee riding six weeks western
My first western was 'Death Hunt' with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin; that was where I learned to ride. The movie was based on a true story about a guy that eluded the Mounties in Canada. We were in Canada for six weeks riding horses. William Sanderson
based comedians exchange fantasy favor male men places shock women writers
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. Gloria Steinem
baseball behind coaches colleges direction experience good immediate interest meal pushed saw sports support ton track
I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure. Dan O'Brien
based company cost forward generally given material materials quarter raw surprising visibility
The raw material cost in the quarter is surprising given that the company generally has six-month visibility on raw materials based on forward purchases.