Quotes about baseball
baseball left takes
Wow, I had no idea. This is a shock. This really takes me by surprise. I thought he had a lot of baseball left in him. Raul Ibanez
baseball best continue improve last month peak peaked played shot special starting year
We're starting to peak at the right time. We peaked last year in the last month of the season. We've played our best baseball these last two weekends. If we can continue to improve then we've got a shot to play for something special here at the end.
baseball improvement playing room solid team veteran
We've got a veteran team and we're playing some good, solid baseball right now. There's always room for improvement so we'll just keep after it.
baseball focused
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball. Bo Jackson
baseball action pitcher
In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
baseball two
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
baseball college men
I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).
baseball running home
It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run. Billy Mays
baseball fall kids
When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that's why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn't fall asleep. That gift I have still. Bill Murray
baseball player training
Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don't tear the muscles from the bones. And so the muscles will have endurance and stability. And flexibility, which helps you throw the ball harder or have the snap to hit a ball. Or to take off quickly to steal a base. Chadwick Boseman
baseball fun play
I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium. Chad Smith
baseball team hero
A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team. Cass McCombs
baseball art reading
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table. Charlie Manuel
baseball play worried
How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy? Charles M. Schulz
baseball beer world
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world. Bill Lee
baseball kids games
Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
baseball two people
You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.
baseball nice army
Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.
baseball thinking years
I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.
baseball marijuana pancakes
I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That's when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list.
baseball team rain
Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter. Bill Maher
baseball quality mythology
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology. Bernard Malamud
baseball mlb long
I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all. Bob Lemon
baseball kids made
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
baseball needs want
Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator. Bob Kerrey
baseball art hate
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction. Bill Veeck
baseball islands three
Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.
baseball wall reading
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
baseball paper clip
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed
baseball men people
People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.
baseball team player
If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.
baseball attitude atmosphere
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
baseball islands world
An island of surety in a changing world.