Baseball Quotes - Page 24

• If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

  Jack Welch

  Team, Player, Directors

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.

  Kenesaw Mountain Landis

  Peers, Guilty, Jury

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• I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

  John Kruk

  Crazy, Thinking, Different

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• I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

  Eric Idle

  Soccer, Nice, Player

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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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• And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

  Parminder Nagra

  Soccer, Football, Games

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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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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• Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

  Walter Alston

  Way, Looks, Panic

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• Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

  Gene Autry

  Winning, Games, Play

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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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• If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

  Pete Rose

  Want, Way, Enough

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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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