Quotes about baseball
baseball children blessed
I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children. Carlos Delgado
baseball player political
I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist. Carlos Delgado
baseball numbers league
Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's. Carlos Beltran
baseball team mean
I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something. Carlos Beltran
baseball jesus heart
When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ. Carlos Beltran
baseball yankees long
As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees. Carl Everett
baseball nba nfl
This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened. Carl Crawford
baseball beat feather whenever
Whenever you can beat a powerhouse like the USA, it's a real feather for baseball in Canada's history.
baseball beat feather focus hand happy hour task whenever
Whenever you can beat a powerhouse like the U.S.A. it's a feather in Baseball Canada's history. We can be happy right now, but we still have a task at hand and after an hour or two, we'll focus in on Mexico.
baseball came college easy pleased rarely standpoint supposed
When you?re up 9-0 it?s supposed to be easy. But things are rarely easy in college baseball, and from that standpoint I was pleased with the way we came back.
baseball bring hard step
We've still got to go out there, play these out, play hard and try to bring some playoff-type baseball into the dugout. We need to step it up and bring some passion. Tim Hudson
baseball coming cuba doubt doubts message people played
We have played in World Cups, world championships and Olympics. The message is already out there. ... In Cuba, baseball is the No. 1 sport. People in Cuba had their doubts about us coming and about the results.
baseball greater matter next return step team year
The expectations for next year are greater but we need to take things step by step. It's a matter of 25 or 30 baseball players. We already know what we must do. Hopefully, the team will return to form. Ozzie Guillen
baseball court fact good job lawyer mean somebody successful supreme
The fact that she's a successful lawyer doesn't mean she's going to do a good job as a Supreme Court justice. To use a baseball analogy, just because somebody is a good shortstop doesn't mean you put him in as a pitcher.
baseball benefit exciting fact fan gotten matter spring
The fact of the matter is, the baseball fan is going to get more exciting baseball this spring than he or she has ever gotten before. Overall, there's a net-net benefit to baseball fans.
baseball book books-and-reading explained interest larger life premise serious taking work
When I explained the premise of the book -- that it wasn't going to be a quickie kiss-and-tell but a serious work where I use his life in baseball to tell a larger story ... he said he didn't have any interest in taking part,
baseball thinking next-day
Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling. Ricky Gervais
baseball mph chuck
Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph. Brian Wilson
baseball football team
Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them. Brent Musburger
baseball years shoes
Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to. Branch Rickey
baseball games inches
Baseball is a game of inches. Branch Rickey
baseball boys want
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal. Branch Rickey
baseball team player
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. Branch Rickey
baseball years ideas
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms. Branch Rickey
baseball men swings
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin. Branch Rickey
baseball selfish past
These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it. Branch Rickey
baseball winning player
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player. Branch Rickey
baseball
He's the best prospect I've ever seen. Branch Rickey
baseball father player
It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day. Branch Rickey
baseball teacher men
I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean? Branch Rickey
baseball mind bats
A full mind is an empty bat. Branch Rickey
baseball football invasion
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable. Branch Rickey
baseball running men
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run. Branch Rickey