Quotes about baseball
baseball player thinking
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever. Ralph Kiner
baseball heart games
[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever read or heard about. [It's] research and documentation clarifies so many of the personalities and events that took place before 'my time' in the game. Jacques Barzun's quote: 'Whoever would know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball' should be supplanted by [this] biography of Landis.
baseball games clouds
A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game. Peter Ueberroth
baseball lying mickey
Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.
baseball skills watches
Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch. Peter Tork
baseball self games
The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on. Hold it, and the game is over. That is the difference between Heaven and Hell. Peter Kreeft
baseball golf player
The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat. Peter Jacobsen
baseball mean men
glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine-bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear-I mean, bright white fruit of the Looms. Rick Riordan
baseball commitment simple
Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment. Ron White
baseball team people
It's always an honor to work with the Twins Community Fund and be a part of all the good that they do. They help people in so many ways. To be part of not only a baseball team, but being a part of something where you're helping people who need help, that's what life is all about really. Ron Gardenhire
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 team safe
The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe. Robin Williams
baseball sweet yankees
To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet. Robert Rubin
baseball baseball-love
God, I just love baseball. Robert Redford
baseball race president
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race. Rob Sheffield
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 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 play want
This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball. Rickey Henderson