Quotes about base
baseball disappointment team
Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest. Dwight D. Eisenhower
baseball real boys
When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
baseball believe heart
I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart. Dwight L. Moody
baseball home careers
I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career. Dontrelle Willis
baseball football teenager
My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol. Donnie Yen
baseball believe tradition
I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.
baseball humorous men
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot. Dick Gregory
baseball stupid responsibility
I did a lot of bad stuff from the age of 18 to 21. Those are days when everyone is usually in college doing a lot of stupid things. But since I was playing baseball, I was in the spotlight. I take full responsibility for doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. And I appreciate the second chance that the Twins are giving me. Delmon Young
baseball trying chemistry
We try to find chemistry; we don't do a lot of situational baseball. Dean Martin
baseball player college
My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do. Andrew Young
baseball sex people
In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care. Chuck Klosterman
baseball games debt
I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt. Chuck Connors
baseball boys should-have
A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball. Christy Mathewson
baseball heart player
If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that the can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting...It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
baseball fans
I'm not a fan of baseball really. Andrew Bogut
baseball boston yankees
The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition. Andrea Tantaros
baseball real grandmother
There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way. Alvin Dark
baseball sunshine player
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
baseball games forgotten
Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.
baseball trying pitching
Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.
baseball kids santa-barbara
I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it. Anthony Edwards
baseball school player
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003. David Cone
baseball somewhere-else needs
This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.
baseball player thinking
It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.
baseball fun boys
Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning. Dave Bristol
baseball encouragement growing-up
Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park. David Halberstam
baseball funny-things uniforms
The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller. Curt Flood
baseball establishment revelry
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.
baseball rebellion relevant
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
baseball thinking people
Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them.
baseball lying men
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
baseball years league
Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes
baseball unique decision
Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.