Baseball Quotes - Page 29

• I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

  Herbert Hoover

  Pride, Years, Presidential

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• I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.

  Herbert Hoover

  Perfect, Worry, Long

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• I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Next Day, White

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.

  Herbert Hoover

  New York, Congratulations, Games

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• I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run.

  Herbert Hoover

  Running, Games, Two

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• I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

  Herbert Hoover

  Team, Presidential, Shortstops

  "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of adventure, 1874-1920".

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• I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Loss, Beer

  Herbert Hoover, (2013). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941”, p.90, Read Books Ltd

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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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• The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

  Herbert Hoover

  Sports, Religious, Volunteer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

  Herbert Hoover

  Exercise, Boys, Presidential

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Tree

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

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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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• You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.

  Yogi Berra

  Thinking, Insightful, Balls

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• Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

  Oscar Levant

  Ballet, Fairy

  "Oscar the Magnificent". "The Los Angeles Times", January 26, 1969.

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• I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

  Eric Idle

  Soccer, Nice, Player

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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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• 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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• 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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• I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mother

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• I very much related to the idea of sexual identity and how it doesn't have to be black and white. When I first came out, there would be butch people in baseball caps, and that wasn't me, and then there were girls in heels and dresses, and that didn't feel like that was me either. But after a while I learned there's a lot of ground in between.

  Dee Rees

  Girl, Black And White, Ideas

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• I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big, toothy grin. It's the Sambo of all other offensive mascots. I have never seen a Native American smile that hard before, not even at a casino opening.

  Wanda Sykes

  Native American, Thinking, Cleveland

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• No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Player, Harder

  "Andre Dawson Enters The Hall Of Fame" by Bob Warja, www.askmen.com.

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• Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Football, Yes You Can, Color

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• These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that. Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They’d be telling our soldiers: ‘That’s enough. You’ve fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!’

  Tom Seaver

  Running, War, Kids

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• I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Doubt, Three, Rookies

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