Quotes about baseball
baseball long brave
I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could. Hank Aaron
baseball successful games
I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.
baseball running wall
Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.
baseball mean differences
Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.
baseball balls helping
Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.
baseball league guy
In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about (Stan) Musial, (Ted) Williams and (Jackie) Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.
baseball hands long
You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
baseball years white
I was being thrown to the wolves. Even though I did something great, nobody wanted to be a part of it. I was so isolated. I couldn't share it. For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.
baseball running home
I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.
baseball off-season seasons
I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball.
baseball practice middle
I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
baseball boy great guy lead league major poster thrill
He's a poster boy for Major League Baseball. We got our lead guy and it's a great thrill for the organization.
baseball excellent intriguing shown
He's an excellent baseball player, that's what he has shown me. He's very intriguing to me.
baseball game good guy job knows left playing road teach wants
He's a guy who as long as he wants a job in baseball is going to have one. He's a good person, he knows the game of baseball and can teach it. Hopefully, that's down the road because he has a lot of playing left in him.
baseball bit eventually guys jim stable surgery
He said that eventually there could be some arthritis. I think he told me Jim Edmonds (of the baseball Cardinals), and some other guys had some surgery - they just take a little bit of your collarbone off. It's not a big deal, but that's not something you can prevent. But from the MRI and the X-rays, everything's stable right now. Marc Bulger
baseball bit eventually guys jim stable surgery
He said that eventually there could be some arthritis, ... I think he told me Jim Edmonds (of the baseball Cardinals), and some other guys had some surgery - they just take a little bit of your collarbone off. It's not a big deal, but that's not something you can prevent. But from the MRI and the X-rays, everything's stable right now.
baseball best
He's an outstanding manager, one of the best in baseball.
baseball knows
He's a no-nonsense guy. He knows what's going on in baseball. He wanted to get what we thought about the players.
baseball both goes high kids school
(Game two was) a little sloppier on both sides. The temperature goes down, kids get tired, that's high school baseball.
baseball cap normally people recognize suit surprised wears
Get him out of that suit and you'd be surprised at how many people don't recognize him -- especially if he's in jeans, a baseball cap and sunglasses, which is what he normally wears on his day off.
baseball gerry knows solid
Gerry is a solid baseball man. He knows what he's doing. Billy Wagner
baseball defense good timely wins
Good pitching, good defense and timely hitting. That's what wins baseball games. We got everything today. A classic.
baseball dignity cricket-funny
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. George Bernard Shaw
baseball mother games
What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
baseball winning games
Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. Gene Autry
baseball games fields
When I get on the field, it's just going to be another game, You get out there and it's just baseball. Eric Byrnes
baseball doe kicks
I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish. Gabe Paul
baseball player giving
I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.
baseball jobs games
Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.
baseball player alibis
It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.
baseball crisis great-things
The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.
baseball voice guy
Listen, I was the first black manager in baseball and there was incredible pressure. I don't blame anyone else. I was too tough . . . I lack patience. I probably got on guys a little too hard, with the wrong tone of voice. Frank Robinson
baseball running home
Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors.