Baseball Quotes - Page 32

• Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Humor, Four

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• All the Padres need is a fly ball in the air.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Humor, Air

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• Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Humor, Drug

  "Knucklehead of the week: Manny Ramirez" by Scott Ostler, www.sfgate.com. June 28, 2009.

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• As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Games, Half

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• Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Long, Pastime

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• In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Science, Dust, Hydrogen Atom

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• Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

  Marsha Warfield

  Funny, Player, Should

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• Jim Fregosi was not only one of the most respected men in baseball, he was a great man. He was a player's manager. He had that special gift as a manager that made you want to get to the field and play your ass off for him. Jim Fregosi was the reason that 1993 was one of the most exciting years in Philadelphia sports history.

  Lenny Dykstra

  Sports, Player, Men

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• Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game.

  Ken Rosenthal

  Games, Years, Normal

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• Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

  Graig Nettles

  Dream, New York, Blessed

  Graig Nettles, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Balls”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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• Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate and those in need. People saw Roberto as a great ballplayer and humanitarian. He was also a great father, husband, teammate and friend.

  Manny Sanguillen

  Husband, Father, Passion

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• Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

  Tom Hanks

  League, Cry, Sports Movie

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• Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.

  Mike Barnicle

  Life And Death, Red, Matter

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• I don't know anything about baseball.

  Sean Connery

  Knows

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• Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.

  John Oliver

  War, Believe, Iraq

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• All I had was natural ability.

  Mickey Mantle

  Natural, Ability, Natural Ability

  "ESPN's Hall of 100", www.espn.com. December 13, 2012.

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• A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Mickey Mantle

  People, Roger

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• In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

  Mickey Mantle

  Team, Home, Thinking

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• After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

  Bob Uecker

  Wanted

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• If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

  Mickey Mantle

  Games, World, Lines

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• Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

  Roger Maris

  Yankees, Years, Play

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• Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

  Harry Reasoner

  Mom, Apples, Pie

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• All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

  George Will

  Wedding Day, Remember, Cubs

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• I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Thinking, Arms, Realizing

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