Baseball Quotes - Page 26

• After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

  Bob Uecker

  Wanted

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• Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

  Bob Uecker

  Mean, Stuff, Done

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• It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

  Brooks Robinson

  Player, Lasts, Bats

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• I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Thinking, Arms, Realizing

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• When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.

  Carson Daly

  Girl, Football, School

  "Carson Daly: 'I'm Living Proof That the Good Guys Win'". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. April 19, 2012.

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• The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

  Curt Schilling

  Gone, Saved

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• Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

  Curt Schilling

  Stupid, Years, Effort

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• I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.

  Curt Schilling

  Insane, Passionate, Able

  "Curt Schilling Says He Lost $50 Million on Video Game Company" by Ben Forer, abcnews.go.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  Garth Brooks

  Thinking, My Future

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• We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

  Jim Fowler

  Eye, Play, Bulls

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• Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Games, Zen Like

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• Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Long, Pastime

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• There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Hollywood, Our Family, Has Beens

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. April 4, 2005.

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• I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

  John Lee Hooker

  Song, Writing, Games

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• In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

  John Thorn

  Team, Years, Way

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• And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

  John Thorn

  Running, Player, Games

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• Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

  John Thorn

  Powerful, Past, Next Week

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• One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

  John Thorn

  Writing, Two, Lessons

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• Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.

  John Thorn

  Fall, Player, Sky

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• I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

  Jon Lovitz

  Cheer, Fun, Self

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

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• I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Play, Fans, Wanted

  "NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". "Travis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 7, 2011.

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• 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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• I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

  Nate Silver

  Football, Play, High Standards

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