Baseball Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Night, Bed, Worried

  "Rose on gambling, baseball and the Hall". Interview with Graham Bensinger, www.espn.com. January 19, 2006.

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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 can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Wish, Firsts, Remember

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". abcnews.go.com. January 12, 2017.

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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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• Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

  Peter Tork

  Skills, Bats, Watches

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• I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

  Rickey Henderson

  Father, Athlete, Men

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• Baseball wasn't easy for me.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Easy

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• The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

  Vince Gill

  Mom, Dad, Real

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• That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

  Willie Mays

  Player, Guy, Trying

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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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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• What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Games, Guy

  "Major League Baseball plans to ban home plate collisions by 2015 at the latest", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2013.

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• I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Girlfriend, Mistake, Second Chance

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• If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.

  Pete Rose

  Giving Up, Block, Punishment

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.148, Rodale

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• The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

  Ernie Banks

  Playing Games, Games, Riches

  Sporting News, May 12, 1970.

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• I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Would Be, Able

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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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• It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

  Satchel Paige

  Body, Body Temperature

  LeRoy Paige, Satchel Paige (1993). “Maybe I'll Pitch Forever”, p.30, U of Nebraska Press

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• One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

  Satchel Paige

  Team, Knowing, Balls

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• There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

  Satchel Paige

  Men, Stronger, Earth

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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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• Don't eat fried food, it angries up the blood.

  Satchel Paige

  Blood, Fried Food

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• My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Player, Names, Kenneth

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• Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Names, Competition

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