Quotes about baseball
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Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you. Reggie Jackson
baseball gold way
The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint. Reggie Jackson
baseball sex hitting
Hitting is better than sex. Reggie Jackson
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I am the best in baseball. Reggie Jackson
baseball people parks
Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch. Reggie Jackson
baseball swings littles
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. Reggie Jackson
baseball team father
Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand in the same batter's box as Teddy Ballgame, but also because a son might sit in the same wooden-slat seat as his father. Tom Verducci
baseball average league
Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds. Tom Verducci
baseball want baseball-love
I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it. Vin Scully
baseball fever bumps
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump. Vin Scully
baseball form charm
The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it. Vin Scully
baseball games guy
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. Vin Scully
baseball winning men
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. Vida Blue
baseball boys stomach
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy. Vida Blue
baseball nice cocky
I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while. Vida Blue
baseball men genuine-person
Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field. Vida Blue
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike. Robert Frost
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right. Robert Frost
baseball writing distinction
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction. Robert Frost
baseball poetry pitching
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. Robert Frost
baseball running men
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. Robert Benchley
baseball games play
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. Robert Benchley
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. Rick Monday
baseball hard-work degrees
Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love. Todd Helton
baseball grind
Baseball is not a grind for me. Steve Finley
baseball kids feet
Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it. Steve Garvey
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Baseball is the life. Steve Garvey
baseball father two
Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that. Steve Garvey
baseball great-love dollars
Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs. Steve Garvey
baseball blessed winning
I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. Steve Garvey
baseball hockey player
Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher. Steve Hamilton
baseball hurt lying
If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat. Stephanie Klein