Quotes about base
baseball father athlete
I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man. Rickey Henderson
baseball player games
It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.
baseball home oakland
Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.
baseball fun games
I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.
baseball dirty games
If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.
baseball today all-time
Today I am the greatest of all time.
baseball texas firsts
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract. Red Smith
baseball games mind
Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.
baseball home men
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
baseball food hamburgers
There's a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball. Ray Kroc
baseball mean men
glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine-bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear-I mean, bright white fruit of the Looms. Rick Riordan
baseball eye guy
I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base. Simone Elkeles
baseball fun headache
It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches. Roger Maris
baseball years play
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.
baseball trying records
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
baseball doubt would-be
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.
baseball memories college
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it. Roger Clemens
baseball balls fence
He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.
baseball body fields
The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.
baseball games way
I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.
baseball motivation kind
Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.
baseball degrees said
I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees from the arrangement we have potentially. Tony La Russa
baseball animal lasts
Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.
baseball fastballs
When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's. Tommy John
baseball games celebrate
There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.
baseball team believe
I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed the same team for 20 years or more. One was owner of the team, Connie Mack. Another was part owner of the team, John McGraw. Then there was my predecessor, Walter Alston, and me. It's amazing. In the 20 years I managed the Dodgers, 210 managers were fired. Tommy Lasorda
baseball race pregnant-women
Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.
baseball prayer player
Ernie Banks was a great great player and when he no longer could play, he became a great ambassador for the game. He represented the game with the highest of class and dignity. Everybody loved Ernie Banks. He enjoyed baseball, life and people. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. We have truly lost a baseball giant.
baseball team doors
You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
baseball dodgers
Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
baseball grandmother games
It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
baseball jobs team
When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.
baseball thinking talking
Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.