Baseball Quotes - Page 28

• 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 love baseball.  You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything.  It’s just very beautiful to watch.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Mean, Watches

  Woody Allen (1987). “Three Films of Woody Allen”, Vintage

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• Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.

  Woody Allen

  Beer, Culture, Meatballs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.

  Thom Yorke

  Cry, Playing Baseball

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• I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

  Kurt Cobain

  Loser, Cigarette, Hanging Out

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• We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

  Kurt Cobain

  Sports, Team, Mean

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• Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

  Brooks Robinson

  Motivational, Believe, Player

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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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• This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

  Rickey Henderson

  Play, Calling, Want

  "Rickey Henderson A Steal for the Mets" by Tim Marchman, www.nysun.com. July 13, 2007.

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• I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

  Hank Aaron

  Years, Names, Ruth

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• Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Leadership, Baby, Flower

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• I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.

  Ken Fox

  Halloween, Age, Uniforms

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• Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

  Pete Rose

  Car, Guy, Balls

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• There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

  Mike Penner

  Sports, League, Littles

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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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• Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

  Albert Theodore Powers

  Father, Sunshine, Son

  Albert Theodore Powers (2003). “The Business of Baseball”, p.8, McFarland

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

  Jay Mohr

  Player, Dresses, Coaches

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.

  Mike Schmidt

  Reality, Thinking, League

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• Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

  Herbert Hoover

  Sports, Team, Presidential

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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