Quotes about baseball
baseball football balls
I tried football and got my ass beat. I tried baseball, and the ball knocked out one of my teeth. Usher
baseball kids practice
Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League. Tug McGraw
baseball lunch tigers
Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.
baseball texas firsts
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract. Red Smith
baseball games mind
Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.
baseball home men
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
baseball league world
Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup. Ron Darling
baseball player owners
Let me get this straight. The owners are about to shut down baseball when it's more prosperous than it's even been, and the players are the ones who have to get their urine tested?
baseball long reason
I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it. Tyler Hoechlin
baseball kids fit
I was never one of those kids that felt like I had to go to practice or that I was being made to go to practice or forced to play the game. Baseball was a natural fit for me.
baseball brother dad
Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be like my older brother. That just kind of was a natural thing that I fell into.
baseball done
Even though you make twelve hundred bucks a month, if I was making twelve hundred bucks a month to play baseball, I would have done it. I would have stayed.
baseball college play
I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.
baseball another-life happy-person
I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person. Troy Glaus
baseball luck tris
Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball. Tris Speaker
baseball mistake ruth
Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.
baseball baby toys
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.
baseball pitcher heard
Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
baseball boys bats
The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.
baseball communication player
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay. Raymond Chandler
baseball relief needs
Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up with the great saves when you need them. Rick Tocchet
baseball knowing actors
That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that. Topher Grace
baseball special als
I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function. Torii Hunter
baseball pain ass
A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers. Richie Ashburn
baseball personality feelings
It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.
baseball believe thinking
I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.
baseball unions marvin
Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis. Studs Terkel
baseball spring years
I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day. Steve Earle
baseball fun headache
It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches. Roger Maris
baseball years play
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.
baseball trying records
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
baseball doubt would-be
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.
baseball memories college
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it. Roger Clemens