Quotes about baseball
baseball believe littles
The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy. George V. Higgins
baseball beer judging
Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge. George Steinbrenner
baseball agency yankees
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
baseball horse odds
You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.
baseball team practice
What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.
baseball office want
Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?
baseball football home
In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home. George Carlin
baseball football struggle
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
baseball player people
Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players.
baseball team father
If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.
baseball home safe
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!
baseball team stupid
If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
baseball song tired
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then. Garth Brooks
baseball thinking my-future
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
baseball song writing
I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.
baseball fun thinking
Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories. Gail Simmons
baseball hurt player
The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball. Frank Thomas
baseball want montreal
Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it Felipe Alou
baseball money clubs
The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't. Fay Vincent
baseball aggravation congress
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
baseball mad-at-someone arms
When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat. Evel Knievel
baseball perseverance life-lesson
Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure. Goose Gossage
baseball superstar failing
The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?
baseball life-lesson
Every life lesson is on that baseball field.
baseball dollars want
I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum. Honus Wagner
baseball years play
In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.
baseball greatest-baseball ifs
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
baseball summertime bats
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.
baseball hurt
I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball. Home Run Baker
baseball garden rose
I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.
baseball home balls
I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park. Hank Aaron
baseball clean
Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.
baseball running home
I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off the field and some of the things I stood for.