Baseball Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

  Ishmael Reed

  Chicago, United States, Cubs

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• The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it.

  Bill Anderson

  Country, Player, Yankees

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• I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Father, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, College, Thinking

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

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• The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

  Willie Mays

  College, Thinking, Should Have

  "What It Takes" with Alice Winkler., learningenglish.voanews.com. August 25, 2017.

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• I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game

  Willie Mays

  Years, Games, People

  Interview with Willie Mays, Academy of Achievement, February 19, 1996.

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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 gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

  Rickey Henderson

  Book, Honor, Three

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• It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Player, Reality, Decision

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• Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

  Herbert Hoover

  Impact, Presidential, Way

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• I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivation

  "Yogi Berra vs. Casey Stengel Quote War". Interview with Stan Silliman, bleacherreport.com. August 18, 2010.

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• Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

  Herbert Hoover

  Games, Presidential, Pleasure

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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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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• In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

  Jim Abbott

  Sports, Together, Can Do

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• You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

  Christy Mathewson

  Motivational, Sports, Victory

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

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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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• 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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• I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Soccer, Hockey, Winter

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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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• 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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  Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Football, Crazy

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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