Quotes about baseball
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She was a pioneer in so many ways, in terms of integrating the team with the community. She's also one of the owners who pushed very hard to get recognition for Major League Baseball when they started to sign some of their players.
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When I leave the game of baseball someday, I want people to recognize that I always put my teams first, Jim Thome
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When I came to live in the United States in February 1996, I came looking for Luis, ... He received me in his house and it was a nice reunion. I heard he was going to baseball tryouts in Coral Springs, so I went with him.
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Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything. Doug Harvey
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When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen. Tom Wolfe
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We won the county baseball championship four years in a row and were in the state playoffs each year.
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My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball. Dennis Quaid
baseball fun player
People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands. Dennis Eckersley
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Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. Deborah Tannen
baseball freak
I'm a baseball freak. Dee Dee Myers
baseball son years
And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler. Debra Messing
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Mr. Selig looked at me and said, 'I want to know one thing. Did you bet on baseball?' ... I looked him in the eye. 'Sir, my daddy taught me two things in life -- how to play baseball and how to take responsibility for my actions. I learned the first one pretty well. The other, I've had some trouble with. Yes, sir, I did bet on baseball.' Pete Rose
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Matt Price has done a great job for us all year. He's got great poise and that's one of the things I like about Matt. He looks like a baseball player out there.
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My initial dream was to be a baseball player, ... I remember throwing a baseball at 2-years-old in the house. My dreams of playing tennis just kept changing. It's been a remarkable road. Jim Courier
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My lifestyle wasn't great in baseball, and I'm much happier now. After spending three years in the minors, getting a chance to play at Colorado was a dream come true for me.
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My job is basically to coach the people who are there. Everyone in baseball knows, though, that Vazquez is a high-quality pitcher. Don Cooper
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My legs felt fine, ... I still need to get a little more strength in my lower half, but I think Jim Hickey, our pitching coach, and the skipper were happy with the way I was getting out over my front leg. So it makes a big difference; without the burning sensation in my leg, it was a lot nicer. My control was still off, and I think that was what was aggravating me a little early. Roger Clemens
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My first thought process was just keep it in the yard. Eighteen innings of baseball. That's unbelievable for two teams to go at it like that. It's the best game I've ever been a part of. I just want to keep learning and learning.
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My first team was the Vipers 10-and-under. My dad played baseball. My grandmother's uncle played professional baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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My first objective is to graduate. I definitely want to stay around the baseball field, maybe get into coaching and do it at the highest level I can. Adam Roberts
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Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh? Rabbit Maranville
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one of the top Metro baseball players over the past three seasons. Peter Wright
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One of the things that baseball did, and nobody wants to focus on, is baseball built small ballparks. They made it easy to hit home runs. Look at Houston; their left field is a joke. Baseball played to the home run as if it was the only great event in the game. Fay Vincent
baseball thinking next-day
Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling. Ricky Gervais
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Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph. Brian Wilson
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Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them. Brent Musburger
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Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to. Branch Rickey
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Baseball is a game of inches.
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Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
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Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
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Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
baseball men swings
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
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These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.