Baseball Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• Two things help me be a winner. One is I try to stay on an even keel. I don't get too high or too low. Two is I do a lot of visualization. I never see a bad pitch. I always see a good one.

  Ila Borders

  Motivational, Softball, Sports

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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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• 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 only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

  Sparky Anderson

  Cheating, Believe, School

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• I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

  Leo Durocher

  Games, Umpires, Two

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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 have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

  Bo Jackson

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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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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• As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Games, Half

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• In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Science, Dust, Hydrogen Atom

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• Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

  Marsha Warfield

  Funny, Player, Should

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• Jim Fregosi was not only one of the most respected men in baseball, he was a great man. He was a player's manager. He had that special gift as a manager that made you want to get to the field and play your ass off for him. Jim Fregosi was the reason that 1993 was one of the most exciting years in Philadelphia sports history.

  Lenny Dykstra

  Sports, Player, Men

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• Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game.

  Ken Rosenthal

  Games, Years, Normal

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• Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

  Graig Nettles

  Dream, New York, Blessed

  Graig Nettles, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Balls”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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• Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate and those in need. People saw Roberto as a great ballplayer and humanitarian. He was also a great father, husband, teammate and friend.

  Manny Sanguillen

  Husband, Father, Passion

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• Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

  Tom Hanks

  League, Cry, Sports Movie

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• Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.

  Mike Barnicle

  Life And Death, Red, Matter

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• I don't know anything about baseball.

  Sean Connery

  Knows

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• Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.

  John Oliver

  War, Believe, Iraq

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• All I had was natural ability.

  Mickey Mantle

  Natural, Ability, Natural Ability

  "ESPN's Hall of 100", www.espn.com. December 13, 2012.

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