Quotes about baseball
baseball lonely player
I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing. Hideki Matsui
baseball thinking years
I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here. Hideki Matsui
baseball loser cigarette
I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball. Kurt Cobain
baseball thinking appreciate
I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S. Khaled Hosseini
baseball dream kids
I'm just a normal kid who lives to play baseball. I'm living my dream. Kerry Wood
baseball league
The National League is baseball to me. Kerry Wood
baseball children animal
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children? Jonathan Safran Foer
baseball mother kids
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard. Norman Rockwell
baseball giving judging
The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge. Orrin Hatch
baseball running moving
[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench. O. Henry
baseball player actors
I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell. Michael Cera
baseball ocean player
Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same shape as the young guys in the league and kind of aren't worth as much. Then they retire before 40. And they are left floating adrift in the middle of the ocean. Michael Cera
baseball baseball-caps caps
I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast. Michael Caine
baseball spring needs
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return. Marvin Olasky
baseball hockey player
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders. Martina Hingis
baseball loss games
Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time. Michael Chabon
baseball dog kids
I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Michael Chabon
baseball book games
The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled. Michael Chabon
baseball father boys
I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game. Theodore Roosevelt
baseball people arguing
I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great. Joe Posnanski
baseball team player
If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel? Jack Welch
baseball everybody excited kids season seeing starting time tough year
The end of the year is a tough time for an event, and I like seeing all of our kids and parents. Everybody is excited about the season and starting baseball again.
baseball became enjoyment exercise glory method workers
The enjoyment of the game, the glory of the game, sir. Yes, we'd like to win, but if we don't that's OK. Baseball started as a method of exercise for workers and it became competitive later.
baseball guys umpires
The guys want to work, but it has to be something that's fair. The profitability in baseball is so huge, umpires are affordable.
baseball feeling goal good guys hard last players shape team white worked year
The guys have all worked hard to get in shape for this year and we're all feeling good. We've got good baseball players on this team and our goal is to do what the White Sox did last year.
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. Joe Garagiola
baseball curves balls
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. Joe Garagiola
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. Joe Garagiola
baseball team home
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. Joe Garagiola
baseball stars wife
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does. Joe Garagiola
baseball cities giving
My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside. Joe Flaherty