Quotes about baseball
baseball philosophy simple
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat. Satchel Paige
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. Sandy Koufax
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. Sandy Koufax
baseball spring writing
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. Sandy Koufax
baseball games amusement
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands. William Howard Taft
baseball games clean
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game. William Howard Taft
baseball acceptance men
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay. William Feather
baseball years organization
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year. William Feather
baseball waiting use
The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat. Walter Johnson
baseball fastballs baseball-life
You can't hit what you can't see Walter Johnson
baseball running home
Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker. Walter Johnson
baseball fun dad
I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I'm not gonna make it working... I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way. Yogi Berra
baseball yankees isms
I didn't really say everything I said. Yogi Berra
baseball fun
It's fun; baseball's fun. Yogi Berra
baseball swings strikes
Swing at the strikes. Yogi Berra
baseball book games
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them? -Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, to baseball commissioner Bud Selig about lagging baseball attendance Ninety percent of the game is half mental. Yogi Berra
baseball knows
In baseball, you don't know nothin'. Yogi Berra
baseball men good-man
What makes a good man? Yogi Berra
baseball games twenties
I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. Yogi Berra
baseball games half
Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental. Yogi Berra
baseball future yankees
The future ain't what it used to be. Yogi Berra
baseball men faster
Man was not made to travel faster than a baseball Yogi Berra
baseball
Nobody did nothin' to nobody. Yogi Berra
baseball famous-baseball guy
Ok you guys, pair up in threes! Yogi Berra
baseball wish balls
I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field. Yogi Berra
baseball hell beats
I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto! Yogi Berra
baseball yankees isms
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience. Yogi Berra
baseball time mean
Baseball player: "What time is it?" "You mean now?" Yogi Berra
baseball school kids
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. Yogi Berra
baseball games
The game isn't over till it's over. Yogi Berra