Quotes about baseball
baseball father games
Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game. Ryan Reynolds
baseball native-american thinking
I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big, toothy grin. It's the Sambo of all other offensive mascots. I have never seen a Native American smile that hard before, not even at a casino opening. Wanda Sykes
baseball bird cracks
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved. W. P. Kinsella
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 doors people
Different people, different backgrounds, different ideals... We walk in different doors at the beginning of the day, and we walk out of different doors at the end of the day. But when it is time to go out on that field, we all go through the same door. Scott Rolen
baseball pinnacle havens
I hope I haven't reached a pinnacle...I hope there's something more for me in baseball and in life.
baseball dog player
I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.
baseball play odd
I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?
baseball funny-inspirational party
There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles. Laurie Colwin
baseball cry playing-baseball
I once tried playing baseball but I started crying. Thom Yorke
baseball dream holiday
My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat. Terry Pratchett
baseball years guy
I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years. Ted Williams
baseball
There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived
baseball neckties needs
I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
baseball two strikes
If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.
baseball running years
If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!
baseball mistake thinking
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
baseball men goal
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime...
baseball hitting fifty
Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders
baseball necks
Baseball is 50% from the neck up
baseball bats hardest
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.
baseball fun balls
The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!
baseball hard-work practice
I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.
baseball thinking swings
Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.
baseball boys men
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
baseball real hate
A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, "Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad." Temple Grandin
baseball school kids
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.
baseball fun writing
Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball. Neil Simon
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.
baseball player thinking
That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling. Ryan Guzman