Quotes about baseball
baseball games inches
Baseball is a game of inches. Branch Rickey
baseball boys want
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
baseball team player
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
baseball years ideas
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
baseball men swings
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
baseball selfish past
These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.
baseball winning player
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
baseball
He's the best prospect I've ever seen.
baseball father player
It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.
baseball teacher men
I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?
baseball mind bats
A full mind is an empty bat.
baseball football invasion
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
baseball running men
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.
baseball thinking color
Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.
baseball war stories
There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on. Bobby Thomson
baseball mickey
Mickey Mantle was baseball. Bob Costas
baseball player tests
commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.
baseball strong hero
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
baseball games doe
He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.
baseball confused thinking
It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.
baseball real doctors
His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they'd ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that even those used to seeing people in dire circumstances were moved by his example.
baseball believe agreement
We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the Mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Montreal Expos to Washington. Because we believe in the future of Baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month. Bob DuPuy
baseball winning yankees
The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.
baseball football player
I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to. Bob Dylan
baseball oklahoma mitzvah
I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl. Billy Crystal
baseball league parent
My parents didn't know what to do with me. They got me into Little League Baseball, I played out in right field, cause I stunk. Brian Regan
baseball moving games
The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent. Brad Lidge
baseball bat face football gets half hardly looking playing scar scars wrinkled
I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them. Kris Kristofferson
baseball hard
It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball Billy Beane
baseball reality faces
You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.
baseball best-baseball
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
baseball mean thinking
You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean? Bill James
baseball fun made
I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!