Baseball Fans Quotes

• 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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• Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Inspirational, Baseball, Heart

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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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• I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

  Harry Caray

  Fans, Responsible, Ability

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• They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.

  Harry Caray

  Baseball, Fans

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• Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Art, Hands

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• Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

  Jim Bouton

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

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• Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

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

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• Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

  Pat Conroy

  Baseball, Wine, Numbers

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• One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

  Sharon Olds

  Baseball, Men, Fans

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• I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Mlb, Practice

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• Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!

  Dave Niehaus

  Funny, Baseball, Food

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• All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Practice, Two

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Mother, Sorry

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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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• The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

  Charley Lau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

  Harry Caray

  Baseball, Philosophy, Fans

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• Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Baseball, Horseshoes

  Quoted in Time, 31 July 1973. Usually attributed to Robinson, but slightly earlier evidence is found in the Guthrian (Guthrie County, Iowa), 26 Jan. 1970, which printed "Close only counts in horse shoes and grenades."

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• Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

  Christy Mathewson

  Sports, Baseball, Umpires

  Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.76, Penguin

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• I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Baseball, Play, Fans

  "NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". "Travis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 7, 2011.

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• I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. There’s part of us, part of everybody who’s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level.

  Thomas Boswell

  Senior, Baseball, Children

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• Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

  Robert Orben

  Baseball, Football, Hope

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• The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.

  Orrin Hatch

  Baseball, Giving, Judging

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.

  Will Leitch

  Baseball, Cheer, Pain

  Will Leitch (2010). “Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball”, p.119, Hachette UK

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