Quotes about base
baseball often-is everyday
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form. Thomas Boswell
baseball hate hockey
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a sultry Texas night before a huge crowd, with everyone feeling perfectly safe, is exactly what terrorists hate. Which is why it is so important to resume such athletic rituals - which symbolize stability, confidence and order - as soon as is reasonably possible.
baseball blood years
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years.
baseball football effort
Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.
baseball doe fans
Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.
baseball mischief
Baseball is religion without the mischief.
baseball team law
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.
baseball eye giving
Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.
baseball practice two
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.
baseball cheating games
Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.
baseball art hands
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.
baseball smell special
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.
baseball want baseball-love
I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it. Vin Scully
baseball fever bumps
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
baseball form charm
The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.
baseball games guy
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.
baseball winning men
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. Vida Blue
baseball boys stomach
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.
baseball nice cocky
I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
baseball men genuine-person
Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.
baseball years way
Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs. Russell Baker
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? Ron Darling
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.