Quotes about baseball
baseball memories america
Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers. Donald Hall
baseball football brother
Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard. Donald Hall
baseball wall golf
This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year. Don Zimmer
baseball games mouths
Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers. Dan Jenkins
baseball love-is thinking
You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway. Cory Lidle
baseball games play
During the season I really don't do anything else but play baseball. I've never wanted to get away from baseball for a break. Why would I want to get away from it? I love the game. I always have. There's nothing else I'd rather do. Darin Erstad
baseball dad hands
When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.' Darin Erstad
baseball hate two
You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits. Dusty Baker
baseball player consistency
I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy. Dusty Baker
baseball fun book
The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun. Dusty Baker
baseball
That's what baseball is all about right there, a matter of will. Dusty Baker
baseball looks pitching
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. Duke Snider
baseball pressure unbearable
He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have. Duke Snider
baseball player practice
What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems. Duke Snider
baseball team player
Today's baseball players are walking conglomerates. They have fantastic salaries, multiple investments, but we had one thing they don't have today, the train ride. We didn't always like it, but those rides kept us close as a team and as friends. Something you can't get on a two hour plane ride that used to take you fifteen hours on a train. Duke Snider
baseball swings balls
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. Duke Snider
baseball father league
Most of what I learned about baseball came from great coaches, beginning with my father, then Bob [Buchelle], when I`d made it into the seated row of Little League in [Dorchester], then Dan Burke, [John Balfe], the great Henry Lane. Donald Trump
baseball giving-up team
My baseball career ended in college.I played on the freshman team, but was becoming more drawn to intellectualism than athleticism, and so I gave up baseball, and it was perfect timing because baseball was going to give up me very soon. Donald Trump
baseball school boston
The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe`s best baseball writer when I was in high school. Donald Trump
baseball believe heart
I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart. Dwight L. Moody
baseball school player
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003. David Cone
baseball somewhere-else needs
This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge. David Cone
baseball player thinking
It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it. David Cone
baseball fun boys
Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning. Dave Bristol
baseball encouragement growing-up
Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park. David Halberstam
baseball funny-things uniforms
The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller. Curt Flood
baseball establishment revelry
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. Curt Flood
baseball rebellion relevant
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it. Curt Flood
baseball thinking people
Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them. Curt Flood
baseball lying men
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates. Curt Flood
baseball years league
Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes Curt Flood
baseball unique decision
Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball. Curt Flood
baseball wall cutting
One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures. Curt Schilling