Quotes about baseball
baseball cities people
I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city. Richard Rodriguez
baseball stars crazy
You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody Trey Parker
baseball looks gloves
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law
baseball absolutes unpredictability
Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all Roger Angell
baseball book reading
I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.
baseball long people
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.
baseball player want
I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
baseball two three
I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.
baseball father moving
Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.
baseball hands games
Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.
baseball forever alive
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.
baseball brother kids
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours. Robin Yount
baseball knowing actors
That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that. Topher Grace
baseball special als
I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function. Torii Hunter
baseball pain ass
A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers. Richie Ashburn
baseball personality feelings
It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.
baseball believe thinking
I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.
baseball war fighting
Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived. Sam Crawford
baseball reality games
I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game. Sadaharu Oh
baseball heart careers
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
baseball player thinking
That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling. Ryan Guzman
baseball dream player
I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.
baseball hitting failing
Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame. Robert Kagan
baseball father play
My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away. Rodney Dangerfield
baseball team moving
I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh. Rod Carew
baseball believe player
When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.
baseball very-good has-beens
Baseball has been very good to me. Roberto Clemente
baseball world doe
Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
baseball player baseball-player
God wanted me to be a baseball player.
baseball past games
Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.
baseball player born
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.
baseball thinking long
I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
baseball giving want
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.