Quotes about baseball
baseball team class
The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that. Jim Thorpe
baseball cities careers
I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career. Lou Piniella
baseball blue fancy
We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball.
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
baseball yankees-baseball baseball-player
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.
baseball games rooms
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 field sneak
And, don't think I don't sneak over the baseball field every once in a while to see Chad.
baseball dark league
One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows. Edd Roush
baseball games waiting
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action John Irving
baseball song thinking
I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a writer you have some inclination to pay attention. I didn't just tune it out and think about baseball. So, it had an effect on me.
baseball war believe
Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson. John Oliver
baseball games famous-baseball
There is but one game and that game is baseball. John McGraw
baseball men leader
One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.
baseball team player
If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.
baseball player names
I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.
baseball america people
We're proud of Venezuela and Venezuelan baseball. People in America don't realize it, but we've got 25, 30 million people here, and so many of us love baseball. This is a great place to look for talent. Johan Santana
baseball player you-re-the-best
When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.
baseball hollywood our-family
There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family. Jimmy Fallon
baseball berries
Baseball... been berry berry good... to me. Garrett Morris
baseball behind bottom defense early good hit main playing stayed
The main thing is early we were playing good defense behind him (Bowers). He stayed smooth, and we hit the baseball is the bottom line.
baseball deal doubt fans following league press road trips venezuela
The league is great, road trips and fans are unbelievable. There is no doubt that baseball is the No. 1 sport in Venezuela -- there is nothing even close. You have to deal with press here just like in the big leagues. The following is just like the big leagues.
baseball games baseball-games
Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands. Joe Queenan
baseball balls defense
There is no defense against a base on balls. Joe Garagiola
baseball player two
It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.
baseball curves balls
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
baseball giving pressure
Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.