Baseball Quotes - Page 20

• The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Success, Sports, Strong Women

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• I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Dream, Morning, Night

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• A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Impatience, Advantage

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• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Poetry, Pitching, Tough

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• I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Mlb, Play

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

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• One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

  Jim Abbott

  Beautiful, Pitching, Famous Baseball

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• What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

  Harry Caray

  Mama, Bears, Pills

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• I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Watches, Radio

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• My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

  Mickey Mantle

  Dad, School, Grandfather

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

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• I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

  Hank Aaron

  Smile, Sports, Hands

  As quoted in the July 31, 1956 issue of "The Milwaukee Journal"; reproduced in "Baseball's Greatest Quotations : An Illustrated Treasury of Baseball Quotations and Historical Lore" by Paul Dickson, (p. 2), 2009.

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• In baseball, you don't know nothing.

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Yankees, Isms

  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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• Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Sports, Home, Driving

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

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• Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

  Susan Sarandon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Love Is

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• There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Hollywood, Our Family, Has Beens

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. April 4, 2005.

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• Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Long, Pastime

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• Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Games, Zen Like

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• I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

  George Brett

  Everyday, Uniforms, Scared

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• You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

  John McGraw

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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  Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Football, Crazy

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider looking at music going "Why is this interesting to me? Why should I be doing this?" and I never felt like I was a natural musician. It came into my life, kind of, as a conceptual problem and I think all my pieces are, in a way, looking at some issue and sometimes veering toward an inside baseball model of classical music.

  David Lang

  Thinking, Interesting, Musician

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• I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

  John Lee Hooker

  Song, Writing, Games

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• I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

  Lefty Gomez

  Leadership, Years, Pitching

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• Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Pastime, Discounts

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• When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'

  Darin Erstad

  Dad, Hands, Two

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• It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Grandmother, Games, Play

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