Baseball Hitting Quotes - Page 2

• He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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  Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Vices

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)

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

  Bryant Gumbel

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

  Tim McCarver

  Baseball, Feet, Hitting

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• Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

  Alvin Dark

  Baseball, Sunshine, Player

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• Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

  Reggie Jackson

  Baseball, Ice Cream, Mlb

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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

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• I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Needs, Neckties

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

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• I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

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• I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, War, Mlb

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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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• 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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• If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

  Walter Johnson

  Baseball, Pitching, Twins

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

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• Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.

  Steve Busby

  Summer, Baseball, Thinking

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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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• To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

  Steve Hovley

  Baseball, Perfect, Example

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• Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Running, Men

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• Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Dad, School

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

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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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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• Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Games, Gentility

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

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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 have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Moving, Games

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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