Baseball Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!

  Yogi Berra

  Hell, Beats, Ifs

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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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• Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ocean

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• Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Moving, Taken

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• Never let your dreams go away.

  Mike Piazza

  Dream, Going Away, Famous Baseball

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• The only thing my father and I have in common is that our similarities are different.

  Dale Berra

  Father, Different, Common

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• Speed slows down the game.

  Tim McCarver

  Games, Speed, Slow Down

  Tim McCarver, Danny Peary (2013). “Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans: Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro”, p.269, Villard

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• We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

  Whitey Herzog

  Player, Two, Needs

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• Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out He's wearing pinstripes

  Gaylord Perry

  Waiting, Lord

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• I always wanted to play baseball and join the circus. Now I have both.

  Graig Nettles

  Play, Circus, Wanted

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• All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

  Dizzy Dean

  Yankees, Wind, Careers

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• I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.

  Sandy Koufax

  Running, Believe, Moving

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• I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Years, Use

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• The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

  Walter Johnson

  Waiting, Bats, Use

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• Normal relations, never. We should never forget what has happened to the people in Cuba for forty years. All baseball cares about is getting players out of Cuba. It doesn't care about the suffering, just money. The Orioles shouldn't have gone to Cuba. This is a free county, but that's the way I feel.

  Luis Tiant

  Player, Years, People

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• I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look at baseball, where 10 000 sit on their ass to watch a handful of players

  John Salathe

  Funny, Sports, Player

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• Our pitching could be better than I think it will be.

  Sparky Anderson

  Thinking, Pitching

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• Ok you guys, pair up in threes!

  Yogi Berra

  Guy, Famous Baseball, Pairs

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• I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.

  Earl Weaver

  Walks, Bases, Loaded

  "Top Of The Sixth" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. March 6, 1996.

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• If you know how to cheat, start now.

  Earl Weaver

  Cheat, Know How, Knows

  "Top Of The Sixth" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. March 6, 1996.

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