Baseball Quotes - Page 31

• You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

  Casey Stengel

  Fame, Halls, Hall Of Fame

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• Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.

  Casey Stengel

  Yankees, Matter, New York Yankees

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• I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

  Casey Stengel

  Past, Hitting, Might

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• Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

  Casey Stengel

  Sleep, Yankees, Enthusiasm For Life

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• The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.

  William Howard Taft

  Games, Clean

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• Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

  Red Smith

  Games, Mind, Dull

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• There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Ghouls, People, Know Me

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• You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.

  Deacon Jones

  Bats, Bags, Offensive

  "Deacon Jones Dies at 74; Made Quarterback Sack Brutal and Enthralling" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. June 4, 2013.

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• The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving heart care operations. I couldn't help but think that in another life, one of these kids could be my own son. If it wasn't for baseball, I may have remained in the Dominican Republic and who knows where life would have taken me. It was then that I knew that I had to use the gift that I received, to play baseball, to do whatever I could to give back.

  David Ortiz

  Children, Taken, Kids

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• I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.

  Torii Hunter

  Special, Als, Twins

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• Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Memories, College

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Body, Fields

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Love You, Games, Names

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• Here I am, a baseball superstar, falling into the pits, having everybody write you off, and then having God say, 'I'm going to use your mess for a message.' How beautiful is that?

  Darryl Strawberry

  Beautiful, Fall, Writing

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• I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

  Jose Canseco

  Gratitude, Thinking, Maps

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• The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.

  Jose Canseco

  Athlete, Light, Names

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• I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

  Sammy Sosa

  Numbers, Waiting, Fame

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• I ain't got no problem in Boston, I especially like the attention. I know that I'm one of the top guys in this game and all the attention is on me, I got a lot of people on my shoulder but I'm human. I like to go. I like to have fun. I like to do this and that but I gotta represent Boston and the Red Sox in every way that I do outside this game. ... Like I said I get paid to play baseball no [matter] where I go to play I still gotta go and perform even if I like it or not.

  Manny Ramirez

  Fun, Boston, Games

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• I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

  Albert Pujols

  Important, Trying, My Family

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• You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

  Greg Maddux

  Winning, Play, People

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• Unfortunately, the rumors are going to be a part of it. But that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else. I'm not hiding anything. That stuff didn't help me hit home runs. I don't care what people say, nothing is going to give you that gift of hitting a baseball.

  Jason Giambi

  Running, Home, People

  "Yankees' Giambi Tells Major League Baseball to Apologize for Drug Problems". www.foxnews.com. May 18, 2007.

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• I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

  Ben Chandler

  Player, Planning, Curveballs

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• I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

  Richie Ashburn

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

  Pedro Martinez

  Doctors, Wanted, Ifs

  "Pedro Martinez talks God, Boston and flowers". "Answer Man" with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. September 4, 2009.

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• Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here.

  Tom Glavine

  Kids, League, Anxiety

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