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 looks jackie
Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
baseball games violence
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
baseball thinking player
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
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 beer culture
Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.
baseball art caring
Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't. William Saroyan
baseball player two
We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. Whitey Herzog
baseball play trying
Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
baseball thinking telling-the-truth
To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate. Sammy Sosa
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?
baseball bad-day thinking
If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.
baseball yankees clear-goals
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. Samuel Beckett
baseball real play
When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade. Ryan Sypek
baseball father games
Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game. Ryan Reynolds
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 war mlb
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. Ty Cobb
baseball boys
That boy Mantle is a good one.
baseball men average
He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.