Quotes about baseball
baseball thinking concerned
What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over. Rick Monday
baseball giggle
It actually giggles at you as it goes by.
baseball football running
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. Thomas Sowell
baseball kids electronics
Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics. Robert Moog
baseball balls
I have never willingly chased a ball. Robert Morley
baseball fighting people
Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on. Robert Kennedy
baseball loss blessing
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. Walt Whitman
baseball interest knows
Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest. Rogers Hornsby
baseball kids littles
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.
baseball inspirational-sports spring
I stare out the window and wait for spring,
baseball believe winning
I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball.
baseball heart america
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
baseball golf mlb
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
baseball ems world
I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em. Satchel Paige
baseball games ballparks
The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
baseball hurt years
Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.
baseball games
I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
baseball moving home
Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
baseball inspirational-sports motivational-sports
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
baseball philosophy simple
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
baseball team play
I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team. Sargent Shriver
baseball mcdonalds oakland
Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises. Sandy Alderson
baseball years body
I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body. Sandy Koufax
baseball way figures
He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.
baseball winning trying
The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.
baseball spring writing
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
baseball play want
This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball. Rickey Henderson
baseball book honor
It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.
baseball eye body
In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.
baseball retiring retired
I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
baseball father athlete
I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.
baseball player games
It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.
baseball home oakland
Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.