Baseball Player Quotes - Page 3

• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

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• I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Games, Twenties

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

  David Cone

  Baseball, School, Player

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• I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

  Eric Idle

  Soccer, Baseball, Nice

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• My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

  James Caan

  Baseball, Kids, Player

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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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 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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• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Motivational, Baseball

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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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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• One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

  Nolan Ryan

  Beautiful, Baseball, Want

  Nolan Ryan (1990). “Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan”, Avon Books

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  No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Hockey, Winning

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  Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

  Babe Ruth

  Success, Baseball, Fear

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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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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  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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• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Baseball, Real, Player

  "Baseball's Greatest Quotes". Book by Paul Dickson, 1991.

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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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• I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

  "Willie Mays Remembers Mentor Monte Irvin". "All Things Considered" with Laura Wagner, www.npr.org. January 13, 2016.

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• Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

  Joe Garagiola

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

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• When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, Boys, Player

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