Quotes about base
baseball fun boston
I ain't got no problem in Boston, I especially like the attention. I know that I'm one of the top guys in this game and all the attention is on me, I got a lot of people on my shoulder but I'm human. I like to go. I like to have fun. I like to do this and that but I gotta represent Boston and the Red Sox in every way that I do outside this game. ... Like I said I get paid to play baseball no [matter] where I go to play I still gotta go and perform even if I like it or not. Manny Ramirez
baseball morning spring
As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs. Lou Boudreau
baseball games errors
You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it. Lou Brock
baseball fantasy
The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.
baseball real games
I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I'd make one a week, and finally, I'd pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season. Lou Gehrig
baseball yankees-baseball baseball-player
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
baseball reading past
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
baseball games rooms
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
baseball writing literature
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. Jonathan Frakes
baseball grandmother boys
My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain. Jon Stewart
baseball team mean
Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team. Jon Miller
baseball knows
I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when. Jon Lester
baseball growing-up reality
I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality. Josh Henderson
baseball games baseball-games
Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands. Joe Queenan
baseball balls defense
There is no defense against a base on balls. Joe Garagiola
baseball player two
It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.
baseball curves balls
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
baseball giving pressure
Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.
baseball team home
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
baseball stars wife
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
baseball cities giving
My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside. Joe Flaherty
baseball father son
It was a terrible psychic blow... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his son where Duke Snider used to hit one? Point out Apartment 5Q?
baseball curves giving
[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn. Jimmy Cannon
baseball drinking party
He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.
baseball statistics
Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base. Jimmy Breslin
baseball morning jobs
You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?
baseball hockey player
[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player. Eric Gagne
baseball athlete golf
Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that. Eric Heiden
baseball games people
I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element. Eric Davis
baseball jobs
Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.
baseball cancer play
I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.
baseball lucky four
I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.
baseball cancer thinking
I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball.