Baseball Quotes - Page 10

• Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Born, Given

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• I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

  George Steinbrenner

  Yankees, Agency, Ruins

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• I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Home, Ties

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

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• Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

  Bill Klem

  Eye, Play, Balls

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• He slides into second with a stand-up double.

  Jerry Coleman

  Double Standard, Slides

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• A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Family, Sports, Boys

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Inspirational, Motivational, Games

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• A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

  Sparky Anderson

  Evil, Sports Psychology, Managers

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• Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

  Philip K. Wrigley

  Sports, Too Much, Famous Baseball

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

  Willie Mays

  Games, Gentility, Great Baseball

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

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• Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

  Dale Murphy

  Dream, Real, World

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• Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

  George Carlin

  Sports, Mirrors, Backwards

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

  Woodie Held

  Swings, Balls, Forget

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• Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.

  Thomas Boswell

  Fans, Doe, Claims

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• Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Humorous, Mlb

  Yogi Berra (2001). “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes”

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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

  Practice, Two, Groups

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

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• It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Communication

  "Stay Sought-After by Connecting Better in Conversation" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

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• The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

  Ty Cobb

  Hurt, Business, Shoes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Kids, Littles, Moral

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

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• Baseball is religion without the mischief.

  Thomas Boswell

  Mischief

  "Ask Boswell: Redskins, Nationals and Washington sports". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 6, 2014.

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• My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

  Satchel Paige

  Philosophy, Simple, Bats

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• Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

  Joe Garagiola

  Giving, Pressure, Chance

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• I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

  Babe Ruth

  Boys, America, Age

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

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• Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

  John Thorn

  Player, Treasure, Management

  John Thorn (1995). “Baseball: our game”, Penguin Books

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• Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

  Thomas Sowell

  Football, Running, War

  "Quagmire Seekers". Column at Jewish World Review, jewishworldreview.com. December 18, 2003.

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