Quotes about baseball
baseball fun play
I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium. Chad Smith
baseball team hero
A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team. Cass McCombs
baseball children blessed
I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children. Carlos Delgado
baseball player political
I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.
baseball numbers league
Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's. Carlos Beltran
baseball team mean
I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.
baseball jesus heart
When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
baseball play worried
How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy? Charles M. Schulz
baseball beer world
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world. Bill Lee
baseball kids games
Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
baseball two people
You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.
baseball nice army
Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.
baseball thinking years
I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.
baseball marijuana pancakes
I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That's when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list.
baseball team rain
Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter. Bill Maher
baseball quality mythology
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology. Bernard Malamud
baseball mlb long
I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all. Bob Lemon
baseball kids made
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
baseball needs want
Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator. Bob Kerrey
baseball art hate
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction. Bill Veeck
baseball islands three
Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.
baseball wall reading
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
baseball paper clip
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed
baseball men people
People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.
baseball team player
If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.
baseball attitude atmosphere
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
baseball islands world
An island of surety in a changing world.
baseball boys men
Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.
baseball games too-late
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
baseball rooms individualism
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
baseball mlb games
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
baseball self cease
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
baseball trying tests
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.