Baseball Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

  Donald Hall

  Games, Suggestions, Lasts

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• I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

  Earl Monroe

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

  John Thorn

  Brotherhood, Would Be, World

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• They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.

  Bob Uecker

  Mlb, Games, Visitors

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• It ain't nothing till I call it.

  Bill Klem

  Famous Baseball

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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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• What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over.

  Rick Monday

  Thinking, Concerned, Bowls

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• You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

  Dale Berra

  Father, Different, Compare

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Sorry, Player, Games

  A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.

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• It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

  Jack Buck

  Beautiful, Sports, Winning

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• Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

  Al Stump

  Careers, Answers, Psychotic

  "Cobb: A Biography".

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• A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.

  Richie Ashburn

  Pain, Ass, Pitcher

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• Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

  Durwood Merrill

  Sports, Fields, Rave

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• Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

  Stan Coveleski

  Worry, Famous Baseball, Lord

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• Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies

  Gabby Hartnett

  Enemy, Hacks, Many Friends

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• The one constant in life is baseball

  James Earl Jones

  Famous Baseball, Life Is, Constant

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• You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers

  Joe Kuhel

  Miami Dolphins, Salad, Chickens

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• Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

  Bill Klem

  Men, Games, Bats

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• I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces

  Jackie Robinson

  Pieces, Trophies, Break

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• I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

  Gil Hodges

  Motivational, Wells, I Can

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• If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

  Bill Veeck

  Motivational, People, Ifs

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• Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

  Branch Rickey

  Motivational, Team, Successful

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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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