Baseball Quotes - Page 12

• Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

  Red Barber

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Games, Wife

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• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  H. L. Mencken

  Music, Italian, Opera

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• I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Softball, This Generation

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 10 June 1982

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

  Joe Garagiola

  Sports, Player, Gamer

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Stealing, License

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• Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

  Bill Veeck

  Paper, Clip, Changed

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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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• 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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• England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

  Robert Benchley

  England And America, Games, Play

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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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• It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

  Bill Veeck

  Attitude, Self, Cease

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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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• A full mind is an empty bat.

  Branch Rickey

  Mind, Bats, Empty

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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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• If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Crazy, Thinking

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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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• What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

  Babe Ruth

  Success, Sports, Games

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• Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

  John Thorn

  Player, Games, Reflecting Upon

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• A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

  Joe Morgan

  Games, Stealing, Enough

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Goals Dreams, Yankees, Clear Goals

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