Great Baseball Quotes - Page 2

• Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

  Ernie Harwell

  Softball, Baseball, Drama

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• I really didn't say everything I said.

  Yogi Berra

  Silly, Mlb, Dumb

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Mar. 1986

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• Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Life, Thank You

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• Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

  Lou Gehrig

  Baseball, Reading, Past

  Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

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• You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Food

  Twitter post from Feb 9, 2018

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• Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Sports, Baseball, Men

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• All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

  Ted Williams

  Volleyball, Want, Life Is

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• I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

  Lou Gehrig

  Movie, Baseball, Men

  Farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, New York, N.Y., 4 July 1939.

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• You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Death, Hilarious

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

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• It gets late early out there.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Work

  Quoted in Sporting News, 7 Aug. 1971. Berra says in The Yogi Book (1998) that he was referring here to the difficulty of playing left field in Yankee Stadium in late autumn when "the shadows would creep up on you and you had a tough time seeing the ball off the bat."

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• NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Sports

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Golf, Mlb

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Baseball, Home

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• I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Games, Twenties

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• I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've 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, Jesus, Believe

  "Fictional character: Annie Savoy". "Bull Durham", 1988.

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• This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Baseball, Mlb

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• [Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Heart, Green Fields

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• 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, Boys, Men

  Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

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• I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Swings, Hitting Home Runs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.

  James Earl Jones

  Motivational, Baseball, Army

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• I didn't really say everything I said.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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