Quotes about baseball
baseball boys butchers
Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy. Mickey Mantle
baseball player guy
After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale. Mickey Mantle
baseball views
My views are just about the same as Casey's. Mickey Mantle
baseball mean hey
Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now? Mickey Mantle
baseball men guy
Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy. Mickey Mantle
baseball player roof
Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them. Mickey Mantle
baseball saws feats
It was the single greatest feat I ever saw. Mickey Mantle
baseball careers looks
If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better. Mickey Mantle
baseball natural ability
All I have is natural ability. Mickey Mantle
baseball way mickey
The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same. Mickey Mantle
baseball lucky
Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him. Mickey Mantle
baseball doubt steps
His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade. Mickey Mantle
baseball fall hair
The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable. Mickey Mantle
baseball years play
He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play. Mickey Mantle
baseball men earth
I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt. Mickey Mantle
baseball coward quitter
I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter. Mickey Mantle
baseball thank-god
Thank God for baseball. Mickey Mantle
baseball support found
I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out. Mickey Mantle
baseball inspirational-sports motivational-sports
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. Mickey Mantle
baseball league giants
The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great. Ned Colletti
baseball player careers
I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball. Mike Piazza
baseball school lasts
I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Mike Piazza
baseball neat-and-tidy punishment
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. Paul Gallico
baseball numbers
Number one rule, attend to business Lefty Grove
baseball balls
I'd rather not throw the ball at all. Lefty Gomez
baseball lucky
I'd rather be lucky than good Lefty Gomez
baseball football team
I follow the baseball team on the Internet more than I do the football team. Generally you can get a Nebraska game anywhere. Before I started doing big arenas and stuff and had a tour bus when I was just working comedy clubs way back when I would always listen to the games in my hotel room on the Internet. Larry the Cable Guy
baseball ballet fairy
Ballet is the fairies baseball. Oscar Levant
baseball teacher smart
Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place. Kid Rock
baseball games years
Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game. Ken Rosenthal
baseball fans good home played players showing supporting time year
Any time you play at home you have an advantage, but this year especially with our fans showing up and supporting us. That makes the players more comfortable and we have played a lot of good baseball at home this year.
baseball legacy lives measured number positively skip temple terms victories wilson
Skip Wilson is a Temple and a Philadelphia collegiate baseball institution. His legacy will not only be measured in terms of victories and championships, but in the number of lives he has positively affected.
baseball district easy hard kids nine played practice rattled season softball task team undefeated
The kids played hard this year. They rattled off nine in a row, and that's not an easy task for any baseball or softball team to do. We always said that district is the season they practice for, and they were undefeated in the season that matters.