Baseball Quotes - Page 21

• Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.

  John Thorn

  Fall, Player, Sky

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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 needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

  Marvin Olasky

  Spring, Needs, Eras

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• I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

  Jon Lovitz

  Cheer, Fun, Self

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

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• The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

  Sparky Anderson

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, Done

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• Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we're 30 years old, we don't have a college education, we're qualified for nothing, and we're used to a very nice lifestyle. The best thing is to marry a movie star.

  Cindy Crawford

  Funny, Stars, Nice

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• Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

  Thomas Boswell

  Smell, Special, Cards

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• All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Courage, Hero

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• I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Men, Willing

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• I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

  Joe Garagiola

  Stars, Gambling, Wife

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• What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

  Warren Spahn

  Challenges, What Is Life, Pitcher

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

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• I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

  Bo Jackson

  Soccer, Football, Work Out

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• I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

  Pete Rose

  Damn, Damn Things

  "Pete Rose Admits He Bet on Baseball". ABC News, abcnews.go.com.

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• I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Wish, Firsts, Remember

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". abcnews.go.com. January 12, 2017.

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• No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

  Pete Rose

  Player, Games, Helping

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". Online Q & A with ABC NEWS viewers, abcnews.go.com.

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• You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

  Pete Rose

  Stupid, Fans, Doe

  "Rose on gambling, baseball and the Hall". Interview with Graham Bensinger, www.espn.com. January 19, 2006.

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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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• I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

  Pete Rose

  Mistake, Team, Games

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". Online Q & A, abcnews.go.com. January 12.

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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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• I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

  Nate Silver

  Football, Play, High Standards

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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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