Quotes about base
baseball absolutes unpredictability
Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all Roger Angell
baseball book reading
I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.
baseball long people
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.
baseball player want
I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
baseball two three
I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.
baseball father moving
Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.
baseball hands games
Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.
baseball forever alive
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.
baseball brother kids
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours. Robin Yount
baseball team safe
The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe. Robin Williams
baseball sweet yankees
To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet. Robert Rubin
baseball baseball-love
God, I just love baseball. Robert Redford
baseball ems world
I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em. Satchel Paige
baseball games ballparks
The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
baseball hurt years
Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.
baseball games
I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
baseball moving home
Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
baseball inspirational-sports motivational-sports
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
baseball philosophy simple
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
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.
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.
baseball spring writing
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
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.
baseball book mean
We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors. Warren Buffett
baseball risk want
I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything. Vladimir Guerrero
baseball growing-up fun
When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.
baseball thinking play
I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself.
baseball pain cheer
True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain. Will Leitch
baseball panic way
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences. Walter Alston