Baseball Quotes - Page 22

• Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Sports, Kids, My Favorite

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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'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Fighting, Army

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

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

  Vince Gill

  Mom, Dad, Real

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• If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.

  Pete Rose

  Giving Up, Block, Punishment

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.148, Rodale

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• I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Girlfriend, Mistake, Second Chance

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• It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

  Satchel Paige

  Body, Body Temperature

  LeRoy Paige, Satchel Paige (1993). “Maybe I'll Pitch Forever”, p.30, U of Nebraska Press

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• One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

  Satchel Paige

  Team, Knowing, Balls

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• There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

  Satchel Paige

  Men, Stronger, Earth

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• My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Player, Names, Kenneth

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• I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.

  Satchel Paige

  Men, Bats, Use

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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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• They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

  Satchel Paige

  Giving, Justice, Said

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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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• What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Games, Guy

  "Major League Baseball plans to ban home plate collisions by 2015 at the latest", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2013.

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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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