Quotes about baseball
baseball fun games
I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much. Rickey Henderson
baseball dirty games
If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.
baseball today all-time
Today I am the greatest of all time.
baseball games lasts
I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen. Richard M. Nixon
baseball knows
I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.
baseball anything-can-happen happens
Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.
baseball games bigs
I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.
baseball taken two
Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.
baseball games ghost
Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.
baseball running distance
Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical. Rich Davis
baseball breathing apples
It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing. Red Barber
baseball player iron
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
baseball mind dull
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
baseball cities people
I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city. Richard Rodriguez
baseball stars crazy
You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody Trey Parker
baseball looks gloves
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law
baseball absolutes unpredictability
Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all Roger Angell
baseball book reading
I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.
baseball long people
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.
baseball player want
I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
baseball two three
I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.
baseball father moving
Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.
baseball hands games
Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.
baseball forever alive
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.
baseball brother kids
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours. Robin Yount
baseball knowing actors
That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that. Topher Grace
baseball special als
I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function. Torii Hunter
baseball pain ass
A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers. Richie Ashburn
baseball personality feelings
It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.
baseball believe thinking
I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.
baseball war fighting
Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived. Sam Crawford
baseball reality games
I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game. Sadaharu Oh
baseball heart careers
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.