Quotes about baseball
baseball games coins
It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins. W. P. Kinsella
baseball growing-up firsts
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
baseball games pitching
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
baseball eye men
Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.
baseball life-changing ocean
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.
baseball games two
Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
baseball hockey fighting
I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey. Wayne Gretzky
baseball hockey games
I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
baseball dream careers
I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so much. Tony Oliva
baseball war mlb
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. Ty Cobb
baseball boys
That boy Mantle is a good one.
baseball men average
He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.
baseball fun play
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.
baseball size johnson
Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
baseball games bases
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
baseball hurt business
The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
baseball hundred percent
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
baseball player important
The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
baseball fun struggle
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
baseball believe school
I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. Sparky Anderson
baseball moving looks
Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.
baseball rose
Pete Rose is baseball.
baseball kissing years
I managed 26 years and found out when I retired I didn't own the game. I thought I owned it when I was managing all those years. You can climb to the top of the mountain, get down on your knees and kiss the ground, because you'll never own that mountain. That mountain is only owned by one single person, and he'll never give it up. That's the way baseball is.
baseball thinking pitching
Our pitching could be better than I think it will be.
baseball evil managers
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
baseball running spring
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager is a success. The players make the manager. It's never the other way. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year. A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules. Talent is one thing. Being able to go from spring to October is another. You just got caught in a position where you have no position.
baseball simple player
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
baseball grandchildren grandparent
The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.
baseball guy hard
It's hard to get guys out when you have nothing to get them out with. Tim Wakefield
baseball boys size
They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes. Tim Burton
baseball art narrative-voice
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story. Thomas Boswell
baseball distance player
The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator.
baseball often-is everyday
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.