Baseball Quotes - Page 26

• Most one-run games are lost, not won.

  Gene Mauch

  Motivational, Running, Games

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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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• You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Memories, Twilight, Sunshine

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

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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 can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers

  Joe Kuhel

  Miami Dolphins, Salad, Chickens

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• All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

  Mike Royko

  Soccer, Sports, Mean

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.

  Red Ruffing

  Winning, Games, Saws

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

  Leigh Steinberg

  Sports, Kids, My Favorite

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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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• 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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• Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

  Jay Mohr

  Player, Dresses, Coaches

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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 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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• 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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• When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Dream, Team, Kids

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

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