Quotes about base
baseball rate
I don't rate them, I just hit them. Willie Mays
baseball games gentility
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.
baseball thinking kkk
I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK) Woody Allen
baseball moving home
Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. Satchel Paige
baseball way figures
He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another. Sandy Koufax
baseball numbers waiting
I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted? Sammy Sosa
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 lightning bats
He bats like a lightning rod.
baseball home games
Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
baseball hero games
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
baseball games coins
It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.
baseball growing-up firsts
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
baseball games pitching
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
baseball eye men
Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.
baseball life-changing ocean
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.
baseball games two
Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
baseball hockey fighting
I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey. Wayne Gretzky
baseball hockey games
I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
baseball dream careers
I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so much. Tony Oliva
baseball father play
My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away. Rodney Dangerfield
baseball believe player
When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge. Rod Carew
baseball very-good has-beens
Baseball has been very good to me. Roberto Clemente
baseball world doe
Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
baseball player baseball-player
God wanted me to be a baseball player.
baseball past games
Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.
baseball player born
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.
baseball thinking long
I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
baseball giving want
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.
baseball play born
I was born to play baseball.
baseball loss blessing
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. Walt Whitman
baseball interest knows
Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest. Rogers Hornsby
baseball kids littles
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.