Quotes about baseball
baseball running home
Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors. Frank Robinson
baseball grateful men
I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseball’s greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himself…Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game. Ford Frick
baseball new-york moving
Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.
baseball curves balls
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball. Floyd Abrams
baseball stories
Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true. George Vecsey
baseball august jelly
In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.
baseball mind therapy
Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while. George Pataki
baseball player college
I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college. Jim Courier
baseball player ranking
The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.
baseball math player
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
baseball war believe
I opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still don't. What we [America] did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism ---and by doing what we did in Iraq, we've managed to alienate a good part of the world and most of the allies whose intelligence and other help we need to combat and defeat terrorism. Jerry Springer
baseball pitching cups
What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Jack Adams
baseball changed continue dropped majority minds number obvious pearl people percent single
Before Pearl Harbor, 84 percent of those surveyed said that baseball should continue to be played. Afterward, that number dropped to 66 percent. The majority of the people wanted the sport to be played, but it was obvious that many people had their minds changed by just that one single event.
baseball certainly closely coming door friend goes good guys helping light until window worked
Certainly Theo is a good friend of all of us, and he's worked very closely with these guys in the past. The door has been really ajar for some time, and until Theo goes to work for another baseball organization we'll keep the light on in the window with the possibility of him coming back and helping us. Larry Lucchino
baseball chad good great reading worked
Chad has a great arm, and he is very good at reading pitchers. He has worked very hard, and is very baseball mature.
baseball evaluate game good man managers mentally players
Charlie's a good baseball man and he's been around the game for a long time, ... He can evaluate players mentally and physically. A lot of managers can't do that. Pat Gillick
baseball college exciting fans game gamers hopefully seats watching
Hopefully our game will do for mid-major conferences, what we hope it will do for all of college baseball, which is get more fans in the seats and watching on TV. We know how exciting college baseball is, and hopefully after gamers play 'MVP '06,' they will too. Trey Smith
baseball best good learning team
Hopefully, it will be a learning experience. It was not the best conditions, be we're too good of a baseball team to play like we did.
baseball competition contracts decide dictate happens healthy hopefully league major performance rotation stays
Hopefully everyone stays healthy and their performance will dictate what happens from there. Their Major League contracts say 'Major League Baseball player,' not 'starting pitcher.' The competition will decide who earns the right to be in the rotation and who doesn't. Brian Cashman
baseball bat good great grow nice
He's very quick, has a good bat and a great arm. It's nice to come and see him grow up as a person and a baseball player.
baseball game
He told me, ... to get all I could get out of the game of baseball. Barry Bonds
baseball boy great guy lead league major poster thrill
He's a poster boy for Major League Baseball. We got our lead guy and it's a great thrill for the organization.
baseball excellent intriguing shown
He's an excellent baseball player, that's what he has shown me. He's very intriguing to me.
baseball game good guy job knows left playing road teach wants
He's a guy who as long as he wants a job in baseball is going to have one. He's a good person, he knows the game of baseball and can teach it. Hopefully, that's down the road because he has a lot of playing left in him.
baseball bit eventually guys jim stable surgery
He said that eventually there could be some arthritis. I think he told me Jim Edmonds (of the baseball Cardinals), and some other guys had some surgery - they just take a little bit of your collarbone off. It's not a big deal, but that's not something you can prevent. But from the MRI and the X-rays, everything's stable right now. Marc Bulger
baseball bit eventually guys jim stable surgery
He said that eventually there could be some arthritis, ... I think he told me Jim Edmonds (of the baseball Cardinals), and some other guys had some surgery - they just take a little bit of your collarbone off. It's not a big deal, but that's not something you can prevent. But from the MRI and the X-rays, everything's stable right now.
baseball best
He's an outstanding manager, one of the best in baseball.
baseball knows
He's a no-nonsense guy. He knows what's going on in baseball. He wanted to get what we thought about the players.
baseball both goes high kids school
(Game two was) a little sloppier on both sides. The temperature goes down, kids get tired, that's high school baseball.
baseball cap normally people recognize suit surprised wears
Get him out of that suit and you'd be surprised at how many people don't recognize him -- especially if he's in jeans, a baseball cap and sunglasses, which is what he normally wears on his day off.
baseball gerry knows solid
Gerry is a solid baseball man. He knows what he's doing. Billy Wagner
baseball defense good timely wins
Good pitching, good defense and timely hitting. That's what wins baseball games. We got everything today. A classic.
baseball dignity cricket-funny
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. George Bernard Shaw