Baseball Quotes - Page 29

• Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

  Tom Hanks

  League, Cry, Sports Movie

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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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• Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.

  Mike Barnicle

  Life And Death, Red, Matter

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• It ain't nothing till I call it.

  Bill Klem

  Famous Baseball

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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 I had was natural ability.

  Mickey Mantle

  Natural, Ability, Natural Ability

  "ESPN's Hall of 100", www.espn.com. December 13, 2012.

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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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• A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Mickey Mantle

  People, Roger

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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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• In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

  Mickey Mantle

  Team, Home, Thinking

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• What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

  Warren Spahn

  Challenges, What Is Life, Pitcher

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

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• I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

  Bo Jackson

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

  Bo Jackson

  Soccer, Football, Work Out

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• Pitch within yourself.

  Tom Seaver

  Motivational

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• Most one-run games are lost, not won.

  Gene Mauch

  Motivational, Running, Games

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