Baseball Quotes - Page 28

• Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

  Herbert Hoover

  Sports, Team, Presidential

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

  Jay Mohr

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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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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• Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

  Chad Harbach

  Basketball, Soccer, Lonely

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• One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

  Al Kaline

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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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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• 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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• 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 Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.

  Frank Thomas

  Hurt, Player, Bigs

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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 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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• I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Player, Years

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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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• Two things help me be a winner. One is I try to stay on an even keel. I don't get too high or too low. Two is I do a lot of visualization. I never see a bad pitch. I always see a good one.

  Ila Borders

  Motivational, Softball, Sports

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• Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we had on last year was considered filler until we could get to the good stuff. It was meant to hopefully get us to January andor to November. To get past baseball. But (it) didn't work very well.

  Mike Darnell

  Fall, Reality, Past

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• The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

  Sparky Anderson

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, Done

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• Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we're 30 years old, we don't have a college education, we're qualified for nothing, and we're used to a very nice lifestyle. The best thing is to marry a movie star.

  Cindy Crawford

  Funny, Stars, Nice

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• All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Courage, Hero

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• I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Men, Willing

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• I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

  Sparky Anderson

  Cheating, Believe, School

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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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