Quotes about baseball
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. Rickey Henderson
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.
baseball fun games
I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.
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 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.