Quotes about baseball
baseball school years
I didn't go to school three years for nothing. It was something that was understood. Even though I went to play baseball, one day I would come back and get my degree. Ryan Howard
baseball years way
Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs. Russell Baker
baseball league world
Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup. Ron Darling
baseball player owners
Let me get this straight. The owners are about to shut down baseball when it's more prosperous than it's even been, and the players are the ones who have to get their urine tested?
baseball long reason
I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it. Tyler Hoechlin
baseball kids fit
I was never one of those kids that felt like I had to go to practice or that I was being made to go to practice or forced to play the game. Baseball was a natural fit for me.
baseball brother dad
Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be like my older brother. That just kind of was a natural thing that I fell into.
baseball done
Even though you make twelve hundred bucks a month, if I was making twelve hundred bucks a month to play baseball, I would have done it. I would have stayed.
baseball college play
I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.
baseball another-life happy-person
I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person. Troy Glaus
baseball luck tris
Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball. Tris Speaker
baseball mistake ruth
Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.
baseball baby toys
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.
baseball pitcher heard
Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
baseball boys bats
The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.
baseball communication player
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay. Raymond Chandler
baseball relief needs
Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up with the great saves when you need them. Rick Tocchet
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.
baseball football nfl-football
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.
baseball dad matter
Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it. Prince Fielder
baseball cutting player
It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans. Phyllis Schlafly
baseball art father
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms. Philip Yancey
baseball umpires league
She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision Mike Fitzpatrick
baseball things-in-life accepting
One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike. Robert Frost
baseball waste my-family
When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
baseball writing distinction
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
baseball poetry pitching
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
baseball running men
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. Robert Benchley
baseball games play
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.