Baseball Player Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

  Harry Caray

  Baseball, Mama, Bears

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• I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

  Joe Garagiola

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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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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• I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

  Balthazar Getty

  Baseball, Player, Wanted

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• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

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• 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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  Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

  Bo Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Singles

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

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Illusion

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• Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

  Ken Harrelson

  Sports, Baseball, Team

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• I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Time, Mean

  "What Time Is It? You Mean Now?". Book by Yogi Berra, 2001.

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• Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

  Shemar Moore

  Dream, Baseball, Player

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

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• I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Baseball, Player, Who I Am

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• I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

  Curt Schilling

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

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• I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

  Pete Rose

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

  Pete Incaviglia

  Funny, Baseball, Player

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• All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Baseball, Courage

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• Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

  Dave Winfield

  Baseball, Hero, Player

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• Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Baseball, Home, Player

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