Ballgame Quotes

• You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

  Stephen Fry

  Business, Work, Mba

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• The crowd makes the ballgame.

  Ty Cobb

  Crowds

  Ty Cobb (2003). “Busting 'Em and Other Big League Stories”, p.23, McFarland

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• When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

  Willie Stargell

  Softball, Baseball, Mlb

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• Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame.

  Rickey Henderson

  Winning, Guy, Firsts

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• I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.

  Omari Hardwick

  Girl, Strong, Thinking

  "Omari Hardwick SPARKLE On-Set Interview". Interview with Heather Warburton, collider.com. May 24, 2012.

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• I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

  Lewis Black

  Art, School, Thinking

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

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• I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

  Early Wynn

  Sports, Pitching, Likes

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• I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

  Albert Ellis

  Children, Kids, Degrees

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• Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?

  Alex Rodriguez

  Baseball, People, Take Me

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• How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!

  Robert Knepper

  People, Best Work, Feels

  "Cult ‘s Robert Knepper on Method, Prison Break , and Unleashing the Dark Side" by Andrew Fish, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2013.

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• It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

  Ernie Banks

  Baseball, Playing Games, Two

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

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• People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.

  Jeff Zucker

  People, Different, Whole

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• Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Men, Different, Manhattan

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• I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, "Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can." If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

  Michael Keaton

  Sports, Kids, Guy

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

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• In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Being Real, Asks

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 126), 1996.

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• Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

  Anita Brookner

  Unfinished Business, New Ventures, Games

  Anita Brookner (1989). “Lewis Percy”

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• One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

  Jasmine Guy

  Lost Love, Pride, Gay

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• So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

  Danny Elfman

  Writing, Exercise, Successful

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• Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

  Salman Rushdie

  Freedom, Games, Speech

  Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', archive.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Softball, Coffee, Golf

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

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• Salinger is such a terrific writer; he did so many great things. He is one of those writers that I still reread, simply because he makes me see the possibilities and makes me feel like writing. There are certain writers who put you in the mood to write. In the way a whiff of a cigar will bring back memories of a ballgame on a Saturday afternoon, reading Salinger makes me want to get to the typewriter.

  Robert Cormier

  Memories, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I want people to say when No. 9 was out on the field, he did everything humanly possible to win a ballgame.

  Steve McNair

  Winning, People, Want

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• I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• One night I'm going to have a big night scoring; some nights I'm going to have a big night doing other things. Just doing whatever it takes to win the ballgame, not necessarily sitting up here worrying about scoring 30 points.

  Dwyane Wade

  Winning, Night, Worry

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• I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.

  Nolan Ryan

  Home, Thinking, Cities

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