Baseball Coach Quotes

• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

  John Wooden

  Life, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.88, B&H Publishing Group

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  There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Courage

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Yankees, League

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  Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2017

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• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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• The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

  Bob Lemon

  Friendship, Sports, Baseball

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• Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

  Joe Paterno

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.102, B&H Publishing Group

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• Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

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• The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

  Don Drysdale

  Baseball, Mlb, Hitting

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Baseball, Coaching

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 2 Apr. 1984

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• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.160, B&H Publishing Group

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• Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

  Jackie Robinson

  Baseball, Gambling, Mlb

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

  Babe Ruth, Bob Considine (1948). “The Babe Ruth story as told to Bob Considine: with 49 photos”

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