American Baseball Quotes - Page 2

• May the sun never set on American baseball.

  Harry S. Truman

  Baseball, Sun, May

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• If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

  Tom Seaver

  Baseball, Thinking, Bigs

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

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• The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

  Michael Lewis

  Sports, Baseball, Father

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

  Alan Greenspan

  Life, Success, Baseball

  "Maintaining Economic Vitality". Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan, www.federalreserve.gov. September 8, 1999.

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• What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

  Jeremy London

  Baseball, Giving, Trying

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• I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

  Hideki Matsui

  Baseball, Thinking, Years

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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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  I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

  Hank Aaron

  Smile, Baseball, Hands

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

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• It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Summer, Baseball

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• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Men, Swings

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  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.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Boys, Men

  Ted Williams, Jim Prime (1998). “Ted Williams' Hit List”, Masters Press

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• I try to walk around with a smile on my face.

  Johnny Damon

  Trying, Faces, Smile On My Face

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