Quotes about base
baseball natural ability
All I have is natural ability. Mickey Mantle
baseball way mickey
The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
baseball country
I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.
baseball lucky
Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
baseball army fighting
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
baseball play playing-baseball
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
baseball years careers
If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.
baseball doubt steps
His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
baseball fall hair
The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.
baseball men
No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.
baseball years play
He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.
baseball men earth
I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.
baseball coward quitter
I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.
baseball thank-god
Thank God for baseball.
baseball dad school
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
baseball fun whole-life
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
baseball support found
I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
baseball team mean
The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.
baseball inspirational-sports motivational-sports
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
baseball college world
I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world . Nicholas Brendon
baseball team player
Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him. Ned Yost
baseball league giants
The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great. Ned Colletti
baseball disappointment hangover
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over. Mary Schmich
baseball
I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced. Mark McGwire
baseball want firsts
If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.
baseball fall player
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail. John Thorn
baseball writing two
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
baseball powerful past
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
baseball team years
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
baseball dream hero
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
baseball player games
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
baseball winning months
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
baseball brotherhood would-be
Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.