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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• The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

  Casey Stengel

  Mets

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• To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

  John Cheever

  Softball, Play, Swim

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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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• We're playing for our lives now.

  Bob Melvin

  Our Lives

  "White Sox tame A's again behind Sale, win 1-0" by Susan Slusser, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2014.

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• Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

  Ty Cobb

  Size, Johnson, Fastballs

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My life in baseball: the true record”

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• Aw, how could he Jorge Orta lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico.

  Harry Caray

  Funny, Mexico, Sun

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• Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.

  Branch Rickey

  Boys, Want, Mickey

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• You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

  Pete Rose

  Cubs, Knows

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• I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

  George Brett

  Everyday, Uniforms, Scared

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