Quotes about base
baseball fun play
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. Ty Cobb
baseball size johnson
Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed. Ty Cobb
baseball games bases
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. Ty Cobb
baseball hurt business
The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault. Ty Cobb
baseball hundred percent
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life. Ty Cobb
baseball player important
The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders. Ty Cobb
baseball fun struggle
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. Ty Cobb
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. Rogers Hornsby
baseball inspirational-sports spring
I stare out the window and wait for spring, Rogers Hornsby
baseball believe winning
I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball. Rogers Hornsby
baseball heart america
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. Rogers Hornsby
baseball golf mlb
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. Rogers Hornsby
baseball ems world
I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em. Satchel Paige
baseball games ballparks
The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game. Satchel Paige
baseball hurt years
Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park. Satchel Paige
baseball games
I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me. Satchel Paige
baseball moving home
Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. Satchel Paige
baseball inspirational-sports motivational-sports
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE. Satchel Paige
baseball philosophy simple
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat. Satchel Paige
baseball team play
I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team. Sargent Shriver
baseball children prayer
Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent! Waite Hoyt
baseball running home
There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand. Waite Hoyt
baseball stars moving
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker. Wade Boggs
baseball taken games
In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball. Wade Boggs
baseball games chance
Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games. Young Jeezy
baseball sex drinking
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. Yann Martel
baseball age band
Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American. Wynton Marsalis
baseball retirement jobs
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. Willie Stargell
baseball coffee trying
Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork. Willie Stargell
baseball reflection reflections-of-life
To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything. Willie Stargell
baseball fun men
It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know. Willie Stargell