Quotes about baseball
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Football is to baseball as blackjack is to bridge. One is the quick jolt. The other the deliberate, slow-paced game of skill, but never was a sport more ideally suited to television than baseball. Vin Scully
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It stings that their high school season is over, but the past two years, we made the playoffs and won a district championship. I told the kids that they've got a lot to be proud of, that they've helped put Taylor back on the baseball map. I told them not to focus on what happened today, but to be proud of what you did in your career. I'm very proud of that core of players. Dan Peters
baseball time winning
It's time to play winning baseball. We know where we want to go. Jimmy Rollins
baseball fortunate start time
It's not what you want to do. You want to play baseball and be on the field. It's not fun. I feel fortunate I got through it in time to start the season.
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It's obviously nice to have him back. I think the bottom line with Jeff is he's a baseball player from head to toe. He's starting to learn how to play the game, and he does a lot of things to help us win.
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It's the Canada/U.S. thing. In international play, the U.S. is always favored in a sport. It seems that every time Canada plays the U.S., it's always a huge rivalry. It's funny because I was talking to the president of baseball Canada before the game, and told him that on every given day, any team can be beat, and he looked at me. He said he was crying at the end of the game. Stuff happens.
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It's the part of baseball that (stinks). You can form some great friendships with teammates, and in an instant, they're gone. Travis Hafner
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It's the beginning of a very slow process. It's like throwing the first pitch in a nine-inning baseball game. Todd Wagner
baseball harder
It's kind of ironic. It was harder to keep baseball than it was to get baseball. Jack Evans
baseball brooklyn dodgers foreign growing lost
It's more than strange, it's disturbing. Baseball was the sport growing up in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Dodgers were everybody's life. Then, all of a sudden, they're leaving. They're going to a foreign place. I was angry. I never lost that anger.
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It just doesn't get any better this. This is the best time of my life, the most fun time in my baseball career. I don't remember a race like this since I've been around. Alex Rodriguez
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It just depends on his command and how he's feeling, as far as how long he'll stay there. We want him healthy.
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It's always a great game between North Salem and Sprague. Chris does a great job with the fundamentals. To me, that's just the game of baseball, and Chris is a baseball guy. He respects the game, and the kids learn that through him.
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It means a lot. He's been to the dance before. Not in baseball, but he knows this feeling. His heart and soul is in baseball and he's told me many times he'd trade all his rings for a World Series championship. We're not only doing it for the players first in the clubhouse, but for Jerry and Kenny and everybody else. Jermaine Dye
baseball careers fans
I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver. Logan Marshall-Green
baseball fun boston
I ain't got no problem in Boston, I especially like the attention. I know that I'm one of the top guys in this game and all the attention is on me, I got a lot of people on my shoulder but I'm human. I like to go. I like to have fun. I like to do this and that but I gotta represent Boston and the Red Sox in every way that I do outside this game. ... Like I said I get paid to play baseball no [matter] where I go to play I still gotta go and perform even if I like it or not. Manny Ramirez
baseball morning spring
As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs. Lou Boudreau
baseball games errors
You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it. Lou Brock
baseball fantasy
The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.
baseball real games
I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I'd make one a week, and finally, I'd pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season. Lou Gehrig
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The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
baseball reading past
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
baseball writing literature
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. Jonathan Frakes
baseball grandmother boys
My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain. Jon Stewart
baseball team mean
Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team. Jon Miller
baseball knows
I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when. Jon Lester
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.
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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.