Quotes about baseball
baseball best came kids played since swept
I don't know how long it's been since we actually swept them. The kids came out ready, and we played some of our best baseball of the year.
baseball basically directly telling trying
I don't know if I'm directly trying to take on the whole baseball establishment. I'm just basically telling a story of my life. Jose Canseco
baseball gender issue
I didn't think gender was even an issue anymore. Bruce Bochy
baseball character men
There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat. Jack Kirby
baseball ideas bats
A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat. Jack Canfield
baseball struggle athlete
You're always struggling because you're not playing on a 53-and-a-third by a 120-yard field. You're not playing on a baseball diamond. With golf, every field is different and every atmosphere is different. The grass is different. The weather is different. You're outside. You're not in a stadium. There are so many different variables, so you never master golf. So, I think good athletes like a challenge. Jack Nicklaus
baseball eye play
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls. Jim Fowler
baseball growing-up league
As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up. Jim Evans
baseball school umpires
Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.
baseball home majority
My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.
baseball giving trying
What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball. Jeremy London
baseball thinking games
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. Jennifer Garner
baseball kids gun
The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied. Jeff Cooper
baseball team believe
Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues. George Will
baseball team games
Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
baseball community mind
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
baseball umpires islands
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
baseball heaven mortals
Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.
baseball ties progression
It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.
baseball years yankees
Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.
baseball athens democratic
Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.
baseball book weather
(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.
baseball spring florida
America overflows with specious 'victims' demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone as defined in the rulebook. What a concept.
baseball games long
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?
baseball thinking trivia
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
baseball years sixteen
A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first? Jerry Spinelli
baseball games tvs
Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat. Jerry Seinfeld
baseball giving-up mean
Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable. Neil Gaiman
baseball fall player
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail. John Thorn
baseball writing two
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
baseball powerful past
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
baseball team years
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
baseball dream hero
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.