Quotes about baseball
baseball neckties needs
I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit. Ted Williams
baseball two strikes
If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.
baseball running years
If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!
baseball mistake thinking
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
baseball men goal
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime...
baseball hitting fifty
Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders
baseball necks
Baseball is 50% from the neck up
baseball bats hardest
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.
baseball fun balls
The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!
baseball hard-work practice
I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.
baseball thinking swings
Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.
baseball boys men
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
baseball real hate
A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, "Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad." Temple Grandin
baseball school kids
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.
baseball worry famous-baseball
Lord, baseball is a worrying thing. Stan Coveleski
baseball yesterday worry
The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
baseball want next
Next time you want to hit me hit me with a baseball bat or a crowbar! Stephenie Meyer
baseball believe school
I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. Sparky Anderson
baseball moving looks
Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.
baseball rose
Pete Rose is baseball.
baseball kissing years
I managed 26 years and found out when I retired I didn't own the game. I thought I owned it when I was managing all those years. You can climb to the top of the mountain, get down on your knees and kiss the ground, because you'll never own that mountain. That mountain is only owned by one single person, and he'll never give it up. That's the way baseball is.
baseball thinking pitching
Our pitching could be better than I think it will be.
baseball evil managers
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
baseball running spring
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager is a success. The players make the manager. It's never the other way. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year. A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules. Talent is one thing. Being able to go from spring to October is another. You just got caught in a position where you have no position.
baseball simple player
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
baseball grandchildren grandparent
The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.
baseball guy hard
It's hard to get guys out when you have nothing to get them out with. Tim Wakefield
baseball boys size
They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes. Tim Burton
baseball art narrative-voice
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story. Thomas Boswell
baseball distance player
The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator.
baseball often-is everyday
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
baseball hate hockey
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a sultry Texas night before a huge crowd, with everyone feeling perfectly safe, is exactly what terrorists hate. Which is why it is so important to resume such athletic rituals - which symbolize stability, confidence and order - as soon as is reasonably possible.
baseball blood years
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years.