Baseball Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

  John Thorn

  Running, Player, Games

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• Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

  George Will

  Sports, Heaven, Mortals

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• Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

  John Thorn

  Powerful, Past, Next Week

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• It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

  George Will

  Ties, Progression, Clock

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• I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball

  Kurt Russell

  Acting, Serious

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• I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.

  Mae Whitman

  Boys, Dresses, Hats

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

  John Thorn

  Writing, Two, Lessons

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• When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Dream, Team, Kids

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

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• I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

  Balthazar Getty

  Player, Baseball Player, Wanted

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• I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

  Matt Long

  Athletic, Terrible

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• What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

  Jeremy London

  Giving, Trying, Grew

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• All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.

  Marlee Matlin

  Stars, Reading, Player

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

  Mike Piazza

  School, Lasts, Forget

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• You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody

  Trey Parker

  Stars, Crazy, Thinking

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• Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

  Casey Kasem

  Growing Up, Believe, Player

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Names, Competition

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• Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Texas, Vote

  "The Making of the President: 2062" by Richard Reeves, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 7, 2012.

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• No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

  Pete Rose

  Player, Games, Helping

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". Online Q & A with ABC NEWS viewers, abcnews.go.com.

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• Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

  Peter Tork

  Skills, Bats, Watches

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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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• 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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• Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

  George Carlin

  Football, Spring, Fall

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.39, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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