Baseball Quotes - Page 14

• When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

  Ty Cobb

  Games, Bases, Kicks

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

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• Back, back, back, back. Gone.

  Chris Berman

  Gone, Home Run

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

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• One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

  Enos Slaughter

  Cutting, Years, Salary

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• Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

  Brooks Robinson

  Faith, Player, People

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• I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.

  Mickey Rivers

  Worry, African American, Words Of Wisdom

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• If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

  Tom Seaver

  Thinking, Bigs, Deals

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

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• I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

  Brooks Robinson

  Men, Games, Play

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• It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.

  Chuck Tanner

  Winning, Mlb, Losing

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• The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

  Chuck Tanner

  Winning, Games, League

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• So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

  Yogi Berra

  Beauty, Yankees, Isms

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

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

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Motivational, Team

  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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• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

  Paul Gallico

  Punishment, Games, Neat And Tidy

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.91, Open Road Media

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

  Joe Schultz

  Boys, Squares, Bats

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• Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

  Pat Conroy

  Wine, Numbers, Fans

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• Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

  Leo Durocher

  Giving, Diving, Nice Guys Finish Last

  Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

  George Brett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Years

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• You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

  Leo Durocher

  Inspiration, Rain, Mlb

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• Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Knowing, African American

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• Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.

  Leon Brown

  Love, Life, Heart

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• You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Encouraging, Self Esteem

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• Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Positive, Negativity

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• You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.

  Leon Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

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• You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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