Quotes about baseball
baseball pitcher heard
Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard. Tris Speaker
baseball boys bats
The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.
baseball communication player
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay. Raymond Chandler
baseball relief needs
Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up with the great saves when you need them. Rick Tocchet
baseball kissing looks
I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system. Ozzie Guillen
baseball player league
He (Buck Showaleter) never even smelled a jock in the big leagues. Mr. Baseball never even got a hit in Triple-A. I was a better player than him, I have more money than him and I'm better looking than him.
baseball football nfl-football
Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become. Mary McGrory
baseball cheer dirty
We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve. Phil Taylor
baseball great-love lovers
I've always been a great lover of baseball. Peter Lynch
baseball golf hockey
When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.
baseball dad matter
Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it. Prince Fielder
baseball cutting player
It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans. Phyllis Schlafly
baseball art father
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms. Philip Yancey
baseball umpires league
She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision Mike Fitzpatrick
baseball things-in-life accepting
One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike. Robert Frost
baseball waste my-family
When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
baseball writing distinction
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
baseball poetry pitching
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
baseball running men
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. Robert Benchley
baseball games play
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
baseball thinking concerned
What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over. Rick Monday
baseball giggle
It actually giggles at you as it goes by.
baseball football running
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. Thomas Sowell
baseball kids electronics
Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics. Robert Moog
baseball balls
I have never willingly chased a ball. Robert Morley
baseball fighting people
Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on. Robert Kennedy
baseball loss blessing
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. Walt Whitman
baseball interest knows
Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest. Rogers Hornsby
baseball kids littles
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.
baseball inspirational-sports spring
I stare out the window and wait for spring,
baseball believe winning
I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball.
baseball heart america
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
baseball golf mlb
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.