Baseball Quotes - Page 31

• You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Memories, Twilight, Sunshine

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

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• One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.

  Edd Roush

  Dark, League, Dawn

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• I have always been a firm believer that the game has never belonged to the owners. It has never belonged to the ballplayers. It belongs to the guy who puts his money up on the window and says, 'How much does it cost to sit in the bleachers?' That is who owns baseball. And it has got to be kept that way.

  Johnny Vander Meer

  Games, Guy, Doe

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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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• 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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• It's a beautiful day for a night game.

  Frankie Frisch

  Beautiful, Night, Games

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• We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.

  Casey Stengel

  Cake, Birthday Cake

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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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• All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Years, Lasts, Teach

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• One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

  John McGraw

  Men, Leader, Followers

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• Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

  Chuck Tanner

  Balls, Clubs, Diamond Rings

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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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• One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

  Robert Frost

  Things In Life, Accepting, Strikes

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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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• Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

  Dizzy Dean

  Teacher, People, United States

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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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• It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

  Don Drysdale

  Years, Two, Guy

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

  Sparky Anderson

  Thinking, Pitching

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• Fans, don't fail to miss tomorrow's game.

  Dizzy Dean

  Games, Missing, Fans

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