Quotes about baseball
baseball mlb games
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. Jackie Robinson
baseball concerned
I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected
baseball children growing-up
People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire. Jackson Browne
baseball golf emotional
Use emotional awareness and pay attention to your body - look [and locate] concrete physical sensations - like stabbing, aching, throbbing - and [distinguish and define them] by saying things like, "it is the size of a golf ball or it is the size of a baseball" - do whatever you can do to find painful physical sensations. Gary Zukav
baseball dream jesus
The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement of all. God offers each of us the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. When we accept God's gift of salvation, our name is written in the Book of Life, guaranteeing us a place in heaven forever. I made that decision during spring training in 1973, asking Jesus to come into my heart as Lord and Savior. Gary Carter
baseball team hockey
Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players. Gary Bettman
baseball fans chicago
[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington. Hillary Clinton
baseball country next-day
I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.' Herbert Hoover
baseball exercise boys
Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.
baseball new-york congratulations
I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.
baseball medicine doctors
I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.
baseball games presidential
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.
baseball country beer
I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'
baseball team presidential
I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.
baseball impact presidential
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
baseball pride years
I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.
baseball games idiot
Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons. F. Scott Fitzgerald
baseball thinking years
If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor. Ernie Harwell
baseball teenage men
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'
baseball jobs atlanta
Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
baseball growing-up kids
Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!
baseball men race
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
baseball running dog
Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.
baseball continuity seasons
Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
baseball men old-man
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
baseball dad president
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
baseball men years
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
baseball drama ballet
Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
baseball team book
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
baseball opportunity existence
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
baseball giving feelings
Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike. Ernest Hemingway
baseball father men
I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
baseball joy
But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out. Ernest Lawrence