Quotes about baseball
baseball chew hang happens head next sorry talking totally
We were just talking about how baseball can chew you up if you let it. One day this can happens and the next day can be totally opposite. That won't happen, though, if you hang your head and feel sorry for yourself. You have to come back and get after it.
baseball learn whatever
You learn that that's just kind of the way it is. That's part of baseball. It's a part of any sport, actually. You just have to go out and play and whatever happens, happens. Jacque Jones
baseball things-in-life accepting
One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike. Robert Frost
baseball waste my-family
When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
baseball writing distinction
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
baseball poetry pitching
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
baseball running men
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. Robert Benchley
baseball games play
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
baseball thinking concerned
What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over. Rick Monday
baseball giggle
It actually giggles at you as it goes by.
baseball football running
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. Thomas Sowell
baseball kids electronics
Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics. Robert Moog
baseball balls
I have never willingly chased a ball. Robert Morley
baseball fighting people
Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on. Robert Kennedy
baseball play want
This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball. Rickey Henderson
baseball book honor
It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.
baseball eye body
In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.
baseball retiring retired
I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
baseball animal lasts
Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally. Tony La Russa
baseball believe school
I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. Sparky Anderson
baseball team law
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality. Thomas Boswell
baseball eye giving
Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.
baseball practice two
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.
baseball cheating games
Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.
baseball art hands
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.
baseball smell special
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.
baseball want baseball-love
I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it. Vin Scully
baseball fever bumps
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
baseball form charm
The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.
baseball games guy
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.
baseball winning men
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. Vida Blue
baseball boys stomach
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.
baseball nice cocky
I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.