Baseball Quotes - Page 11

• Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Boys, Men, Self

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• The clock doesn?t matter in baseball.

  Herb Caen

  Matter, Clock

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• Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

  Robert J. LeRoy

  Motivational, Men, Average

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• Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

  Casey Stengel

  Years, Games, Ems

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• Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

  Cleo Moore

  Fighting, Thinking, Games

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• Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Pay, Goods

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• Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Moving, Home

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• The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

  Tom Seaver

  Rising, Fastballs

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• I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

  Mickey Mantle

  Yankees, Bats, Looks

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

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• Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Serious, Reform, Problem

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• I led the league in go get 'em next time.

  Bob Uecker

  League, Ems, Next

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

  Erma Bombeck

  Gossip, Pastime

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• Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

  Bruce Catton

  America, League, Pieces

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

  Joe Garagiola

  Sports, Player, Gamer

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• When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

  Ty Cobb

  Fun, Struggle, Play

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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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

  Slumps, Looks, Gloves

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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

  Feet, Hitting, Inches

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• There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

  Leo Durocher

  Running, Five, Can Do

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• The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.

  Richard Gilman

  Games, Ghost, Fraternity

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• I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

  Sargent Shriver

  Team, Play, Foxes

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• Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Stealing, License

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• Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

  Charlie Finley

  Success, Softball, Sports

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• Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

  Norm Cash

  Mean, Years, Two

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• Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.

  Thomas Boswell

  Art, Hands, Obsessive Compulsive

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