Quotes about baseball
baseball giving-up mean
Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable. Neil Gaiman
baseball father boys
I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game. Theodore Roosevelt
baseball football team
I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people. Theo Rossi
baseball fall athlete
Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category. Marcus Giles
baseball profitable
Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler. Kin Hubbard
baseball team people
It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw. Michael Lewis
baseball running home
Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.
baseball team heart
There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.
baseball player television
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?
baseball play red
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
baseball culture speak
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
baseball depressing men
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.
baseball volleyball eye
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record
baseball tradition profit
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.
baseball play
You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether. Michael Eisner
baseball country
He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country. Lefty Gomez
baseball team years
When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn't talk to you until you were with the team three or four years. Nowadays the rookies get $100,000 to sign and they don't talk to the regulars.
baseball might shots
One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.
baseball lucky
I'd rather be lucky than good
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 player reality
All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player. Tobin Bell
baseball player college
I am very excited to be included in the very first college baseball Hall of Fame class. For me to be honored with these coaches and players that I have grown to admire and respect is very special. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Lubbock. Skip Bertman
baseball mean college
I'm honored to be on this list for the official beginning of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. The coaches on the list laid the groundwork for what college baseball is today. Being mentioned with those men means a lot to me.
baseball stars sunday
The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon. Sinclair Lewis
baseball party events
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
baseball silly giving
If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat. Joey Jordison
baseball wanted
It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do. Joe Mauer
baseball ifs
Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him. Joe Morgan
baseball games stealing
A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.
baseball football mean
I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything. Joe Montana
baseball football player
I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion. Joe Namath
baseball drinking sleep
Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping. Joe DiMaggio
baseball fun pain
I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.