Quotes about baseball
baseball school years
I didn't go to school three years for nothing. It was something that was understood. Even though I went to play baseball, one day I would come back and get my degree. Ryan Howard
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 feet hitting
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. Tim McCarver
baseball games speed
Speed slows down the game.
baseball going-out bob
I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!
baseball nice player
It is nice to have the fans recognize you, not because it makes you feel like a big-time player, but because they enjoy watching baseball and they like watching us play. It's going to get even better being here. Pretty soon, the city could be one of the best places to play. Ryan Zimmerman
baseball easy
Baseball wasn't easy for me. Ryne Sandberg
baseball player who-i-am
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.
baseball player harder
No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.
baseball next-day next
In baseball, there's always the next day
baseball play league
I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman. Russell Wilson
baseball boys men
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. Roy Campanella
baseball jesus believe
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. Ron Shelton
baseball games world
When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something. Rollie Fingers
baseball team roots
Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands. Susan Sarandon
baseball football mother
I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid. Sugar Ray Leonard
baseball unions marvin
Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis. Studs Terkel
baseball pain ass
A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers. Richie Ashburn
baseball personality feelings
It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.
baseball believe thinking
I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.
baseball war fighting
Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived. Sam Crawford
baseball reality games
I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game. Sadaharu Oh
baseball heart careers
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
baseball player thinking
That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling. Ryan Guzman
baseball dream player
I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.