Baseball Quotes - Page 23

• The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

  Lawrence Ritter

  Player, Overrated, Underrated

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• If you're going to be lucky you've got to think lucky.

  Luke Appling

  Thinking, Lucky, Ifs

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• Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

  Brooks Robinson

  Motivational, Believe, Player

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• It's amazing what you can do in this game with a heart and a brain

  Buddy Bell

  Heart, Games, Brain

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• I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

  Kurt Cobain

  Loser, Cigarette, Hanging Out

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• It's baseball. You've got to be the same guy every day, no matter if you go 4-for-4 or 0-for-4.

  Gordon Beckham

  Guy, Matter, Ifs

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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 haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.

  Ken Fox

  Halloween, Age, Uniforms

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• Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

  Pete Rose

  Car, Guy, Balls

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• Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

  Albert Theodore Powers

  Father, Sunshine, Son

  Albert Theodore Powers (2003). “The Business of Baseball”, p.8, McFarland

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• I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

  Jay Mohr

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

  Mark McGwire

  Want, Firsts, Know Yourself

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• Never say never in this game because crazy stuff can happen.

  Mark Buehrle

  Crazy, Games, Stuff

  "Perfection: Buehrle tosses perfect game for ChiSox" by Andrew Seligman, www.foxnews.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Give him a crowd, a gallery worthy of his best effort, and the old warrior will put on his show... He isn't what he use to be. But pack the stands, turn up the lights, and who is it brings down the house with his act? The Babe!

  John J. Kiernan

  Warrior, Light, Best Effort

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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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• Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.

  Marcus Sakey

  Moving, Mean, Data

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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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• You get what you earn.

  Paul Konerko

  Reap

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• You have to know what you're doing and where you're going. For some guys, the answer is just keep doing what you're doing. For other guys, that might not be the case. It just depends on what kind you are.

  Paul Konerko

  Guy, Might, Answers

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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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