Quotes about base
baseball caring special
I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person. Tommy Lasorda
baseball player years
I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.
baseball team school
I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.
baseball smart team
The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.
baseball years lasts
All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.
baseball wife thirds
If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
baseball years ends
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
baseball hard-work people
When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.
baseball winning mlb
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
baseball cutting people
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again. Tom Waits
baseball rising fastballs
The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball. Tom Seaver
baseball jobs guy
My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out, sometimes by striking them out.
baseball games radio
It's (baseball) on the radio and in the newspapers every day, the only game you can follow on that basis. From whatever arm's length you choose, it's always there.
baseball running war
These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that. Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They’d be telling our soldiers: ‘That’s enough. You’ve fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!’
baseball thinking bigs
If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.
baseball two league
There are only two places in this league, First Place and No Place.
baseball athlete boys
A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.
baseball essence
Fenway is the essence of baseball
baseball numbers worry
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
baseball men earth
Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap. Steve Martin
baseball boys men
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. Roy Campanella
baseball jesus believe
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. Ron Shelton
baseball games world
When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something. Rollie Fingers
baseball team roots
Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands. Susan Sarandon
baseball football mother
I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid. Sugar Ray Leonard
baseball unions marvin
Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis. Studs Terkel
baseball spring years
I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day. Steve Earle
baseball moving player
If you're a baseball player and you're on the mound, you don't ever want to look up in the stands if somebody is yelling at you because they know they've got you. You just keep your head down, keep moving along. Of course it annoys you at the time, but you don't ever show that it does annoy you; just go ahead and move on and keep playing. If it does distract you, back off. Tiger Woods
baseball ice-cream mlb
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you. Reggie Jackson
baseball gold way
The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.
baseball sex hitting
Hitting is better than sex.
baseball famous-baseball i-am-the-best
I am the best in baseball.
baseball people parks
Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.