Quotes about baseball
baseball thinking games
At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?" Norman Cousins
baseball dad team
I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league. Noah Baumbach
baseball moved
I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me. Mike Trout
baseball thinking car
I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.
baseball play firsts
First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball. Michael Nesmith
baseball light darkness
If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light. Marianne Williamson
baseball boys hats
I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable. Mae Whitman
baseball player actors
I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell. Michael Cera
baseball ocean player
Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same shape as the young guys in the league and kind of aren't worth as much. Then they retire before 40. And they are left floating adrift in the middle of the ocean.
baseball baseball-caps caps
I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast. Michael Caine
baseball spring needs
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return. Marvin Olasky
baseball hockey player
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders. Martina Hingis
baseball loss games
Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time. Michael Chabon
baseball dog kids
I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
baseball book games
The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.
baseball fifth-grade apologizing
I apologize for Pam. I accidentally hit her in the head with a baseball when we were in fifth grade and knocked her out cold. She’s never been right since. (Tory) Sherrilyn Kenyon
baseball games gamer
I love the game of baseball. Nomar Garciaparra
baseball thinking idols
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.
baseball appreciative given
My ability to throw a baseball was a gift. It was a God-given gift. And I am truly appreciative of that gift. Nolan Ryan
baseball player years
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
baseball would-be able
I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.
baseball children years
For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
baseball long together
Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.
baseball crazy thinking
It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.
baseball struggle expression
Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century. Mark Twain
baseball disappointment hangover
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over. Mary Schmich
baseball
I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced. Mark McGwire
baseball want firsts
If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.
baseball hurt mistake
In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt. Mike Scioscia
baseball reality thinking
Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in. Mike Schmidt
baseball effort black
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
baseball fall past
Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we had on last year was considered filler until we could get to the good stuff. It was meant to hopefully get us to January andor to November. To get past baseball. But (it) didn't work very well. Mike Darnell
baseball care lasts
I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat. Mike Ditka