Quotes about baseball
baseball country beer
I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!' Herbert Hoover
baseball team presidential
I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.
baseball impact presidential
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
baseball pride years
I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.
baseball games idiot
Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons. F. Scott Fitzgerald
baseball thinking years
If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor. Ernie Harwell
baseball teenage men
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'
baseball jobs atlanta
Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
baseball growing-up kids
Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!
baseball men race
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
baseball running dog
Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.
baseball continuity seasons
Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
baseball men old-man
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
baseball dad president
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
baseball men years
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
baseball drama ballet
Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
baseball team book
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
baseball opportunity existence
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
baseball giving feelings
Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike. Ernest Hemingway
baseball father men
I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
baseball perseverance life-lesson
Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure. Goose Gossage
baseball superstar failing
The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?
baseball life-lesson
Every life lesson is on that baseball field.
baseball dollars want
I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum. Honus Wagner
baseball years play
In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.
baseball greatest-baseball ifs
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
baseball summertime bats
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.
baseball hurt
I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball. Home Run Baker
baseball garden rose
I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.
baseball home balls
I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park. Hank Aaron
baseball clean
Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.
baseball running home
I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off the field and some of the things I stood for.
baseball want firsts
The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.