Quotes about baseball
baseball jobs team
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs. Pat Gillick
baseball integrity hard-work
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect. Pat Gillick
baseball wine numbers
Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine. Pat Conroy
baseball neat-and-tidy punishment
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. Paul Gallico
baseball numbers
Number one rule, attend to business Lefty Grove
baseball balls
I'd rather not throw the ball at all. Lefty Gomez
baseball country
He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country. Lefty Gomez
baseball team years
When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn't talk to you until you were with the team three or four years. Nowadays the rookies get $100,000 to sign and they don't talk to the regulars. Lefty Gomez
baseball might shots
One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him. Lefty Gomez
baseball lucky
I'd rather be lucky than good Lefty Gomez
baseball football player
I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion. Joe Namath
baseball drinking sleep
Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping. Joe DiMaggio
baseball fun pain
I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game. Joe DiMaggio
baseball shots
I thought he had been shot. Joe DiMaggio
baseball skills tests
The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch. Joe DiMaggio
baseball leader example
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. Joe DiMaggio
baseball stars kids
Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance. Jodi Picoult
baseball eye skulls
Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer. Jodi Picoult
baseball loss circles
Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn the on-deck circle. Pat Williams
baseball men white
The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone. Paul O'Grady
baseball dream team
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant. Masaharu Morimoto
baseball player careers
I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball. Mike Piazza
baseball school lasts
I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Mike Piazza
baseball average law
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. Neville Cardus
baseball mean games
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. Neville Cardus
baseball silly giving
If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat. Joey Jordison
baseball wanted
It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do. Joe Mauer
baseball ifs
Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him. Joe Morgan
baseball games stealing
A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter. Joe Morgan
baseball football mean
I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything. Joe Montana
baseball moving kids
Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night? Humphrey Bogart
baseball basically given good problem sign steals
He can go on his own. I think of all the steals he has this season, I've given him the sign to steal once. He just basically has good baseball instinct. I have no problem with anything he does.
baseball basketball beat bigger heck liked tag
He always wanted to beat up on the bigger kids; even when he was small, he'd always tag along. When he got to 8 or 9 years old, he was a heck of a basketball player, baseball player. He had drive. He just liked to win. That's his motivation, to win.