Quotes about base
baseball cake birthday-cake
We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it. Casey Stengel
baseball two ems
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
baseball kids balls
That kid can hit balls over buildings.
baseball balls catchers
You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
baseball stars ambition
The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher. Calvin Trillin
baseball games
Baseball is our national game. Calvin Coolidge
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one. Daniel Alarcon
bases dominant entirely home run searching team
We're still searching for our identity. We've got an entirely new team out there. We don't have a dominant pitcher. We don't have any home run hitters. We've got a little speed. But we've got to be able to run the bases and play a little small-ball to be successful.
based competition game good jumping people start
We've got good competition, ... I think, based on a game or a half, some people start jumping to conclusions, but I think that is one of our most competitive positions. Norv Turner
baseball focused
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball. Bo Jackson
baseball running home
It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run. Billy Mays
baseball passion games
Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for. Dick Enberg
baseball good-man way
Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are. Earl Weaver
baseball father thinking
My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday. Bob Feller
baseball two people
There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them. Charley Pride
baseball book thinking
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way. Charles Kuralt
baseball team believe
I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.
baseball men games
Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game Bill Klem
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We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of course, the take-a-strike, we've modified that, that's no longer going to exist. Pitch counts will exist, but it's not one blanket program. If it needs to exist for a certain individual, it will. If it doesn't for another, it won't.
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I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish. Ken Bruen
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Pennant races drain the energy from the best of them. Old-fashioned baseball races are to me the most grueling daily test in any sport. Gotta keep coming out, every day, in the face of looming disaster. George Vecsey
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Our guys are ready to go out and play baseball though. I think we're playing with confidence, playing well. The team is coming together. We had a goal to win the region (Region VI), we did that; we had a goal to win the district; we're one win away from that, and we're focused on finishing the district.
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Our guys are just playing great baseball right now. Things can always change in the blink of an eye, but I think this bunch will stay focused and take this season one game at a time.
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Our Hispanic fan base is a treasure. One of the things I am most proud of is to hear 'Vaqueros de Dallas' when we go to Mexico. Jerry Jones
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Parents often choose where they buy based on schools, thinking that is where they are going to go eternally. As we grow, we just can't guarantee that any boundary is going to stay the same.
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Over the short term Treasuries yields will head higher and prices lower based on the fact that economic damage from this hurricane is not as great as the worst fears had priced in.
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Our pitching is pretty close to where we need to be. I think we're going to be fine. It's not going to get easier going into Cleveland (this weekend). We're going to be playing a lot of good baseball teams early, so you're not going to be able to breathe. You've got to keep grinding. Ron Gardenhire
bases chance double field game good helped hold job looking ourselves pitchers plays though
Our pitchers did a good job today. If we make those double plays, we're looking at a 2-0 game. And we had one chance ourselves to do something with the bases loaded. We made some plays in the field as the game went on that helped our pitchers hold them down. Overall, even though we didn't score, there were a lot of things that were encouraging.
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Our team's going to be mainly concentrating on running the bases well and situational hitting. I was just trying to get myself ready to hit and it went out so I was happy with that. It was actually one of the coolest things I've ever done on the field. I grew up coming to this park so it was kind of like a fairy tale.
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Overall I was pleased with the spring. All the guys who played in the World Baseball Classic came back healthy. We're ready to go. Willie Randolph
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Overall, this is one of the faster teams that we've had here. We haven't really had many opportunities to steal so far. But our speed around the bases is going to be one of our strengths as the season goes along.
bases good hovering job kept pitching ran starting
Overall, our pitching has kept us in games, and that's why we're kind of hovering at that .500 mark. We want to get over that hump. Our starting pitching did a good job and we ran the bases really well. ... We're not only more aggressive, but we're more confident.
base good plenty
Our young base is pretty solid. We have plenty of young big guys, so I think we're in pretty good shape. Kevin McHale