Baseball Opening Day Quotes

• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

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

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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

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  You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Birthday, Sports, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Opportunity, Games

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• Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

  Mary Schmich

  Baseball, Disappointment, Hangover

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.220, Agate Digital

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• It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Motivational, Summer, Softball

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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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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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

  Walt Whitman

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

  Rob Sheffield

  Baseball, Race, President

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• I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Baseball, Dream, Morning

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• I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Golf, Mlb

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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  Walt Whitman

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.

  Al Gallagher

  Baseball, Order, Three

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• There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

  George Brett

  Baseball, Blood, Years

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• Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Hurt, Sex

  "L. M. Boyd" by Boyd, "The Sioux City Journal", p. A17, April 20, 1981.

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• A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

  Earl Wilson

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

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• I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Years, Giving

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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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• There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

  George Vecsey

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  George Vecsey (1989). “A Year in the Sun: The Games, the Players, the Pleasure of Sports”, Crown Publishers

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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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• Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

  Phil Linz

  Baseball, Fun, Games

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• I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

  Kevin Costner

  Sweet, Morning, Believe

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• When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

  Vance Law

  Baseball, Slumps, Looks

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• When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

  Bob Lemon

  Baseball, Kids, Law

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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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