Baseball Quotes - Page 16

• Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

  Martina Hingis

  Hockey, Player, Tennis

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• As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

  Garth Brooks

  Being Happy, Kids, Play

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• (Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.

  Ira Berkow

  Winning, Awards, Air

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• If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

  Eric Alterman

  Team, Years, Average

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• Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, School, Kids

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• A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

  Branch Rickey

  Men, Swings, Games

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• The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Play, Dumb

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

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• After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

  Reggie Jackson

  Funny, Mean, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Football, Growing Up

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I wanted to play baseball!

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Play, Wanted

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• The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

  Satchel Paige

  Change, Class, Citizens

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• The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.

  George V. Higgins

  Believe, Abiding, Littles

  George V. Higgins (1990). “The progress of the seasons: forty years of baseball in our town”, Prentice Hall

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• Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

  Babe Ruth

  Believe, Two, Forget

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

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• All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Running, Uphill Battles

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

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• Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Teamwork, Player

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• I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

  Balthazar Getty

  Team, Stuff, Good Enough

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• I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Football, Thinking

  The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

  Hank Aaron

  Successful, Games, Way

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• It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Crazy, Thinking

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• I love baseball, and the door remains open.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Doors, Remains

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• A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

  David Ogilvy

  Teamwork, Running, Motivational Sports

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• There are a lot of shots in golf I can't hit, but I try to hit them anyway. The frustration is not there, because I'm still learning. But I really know how to do this. I'm not just hoping to get it where I want it... Let the other guys do it half-assed.

  Greg Maddux

  Motivational, Golf, Frustration

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• There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.

  Al Gallagher

  Order, Three, Problem

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• Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me. I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I'd rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Strength, Sexy, Running

  "Suzuki on a First-Name Basis With Records" by Brad Lefton, www.nytimes.com. August 22, 2009.

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• The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Confidence, Memories

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