Baseball Quotes - Page 34

• When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

  Peter Lynch

  Golf, Hockey, People

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.

  Don Zimmer

  Sports, Yankees, Missing

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• Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

  Chili Davis

  Winning, Statistics, Individual

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• I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.

  Jesse McCartney

  Team, School, Different

  "Jesse McCartney Talks Confidence, Future Plans, and Beware The Gonzo!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. January 19, 2012.

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• To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.

  Bill Klem

  Games

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• If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

  Ron Fairly

  Sports, Names, Numbers

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• Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Fans, Pedants, Kind

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• I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

  Ben Gibbard

  Gun, Player, Mph

  "Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard Has A Wicked Knuckler But Needs Some Control" by MTV, April 21, 2010.

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• The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

  Lou Brock

  Sports, Fantasy

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• I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.

  Bowie Kuhn

  Rip, Believe, Men

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• The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.

  Bob Uecker

  Fall, Careers, Philadelphia

  "OPEN SEASON / Uecker left mark on scouting reports" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2003.

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• Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Book, Humor

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• Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Humor, Rich

  "From the SABR archives: A conversation with Jerry Coleman". The SABR Oral History interview of Jerry Coleman by Walter Langford, sabr.org. May 10, 1988.

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• I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Couple, Mistake

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

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Humor, Air

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• When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Humor, Hands

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• To keep going in baseball, you have to learn all the time. I love to play. When I can't get outs, I'll stop.

  Fernando Valenzuela

  Play, I Can, Keep Going

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• Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its squareness and honesty and you have destroyed something more; you have planted suspicion of all things in his heart.

  Kenesaw Mountain Landis

  Life, Faith, Honesty

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• Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

  Bud Selig

  Stars, America, People

  "Quotes from congressional steroid hearing". The Associated Press, NBC Sports, March 17, 2005.

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• Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

  Bud Selig

  Responsibility, Games, League

  "MLB Launches Anti-Steroid Campaign at Classic". Epoch Times, March 23, 2006.

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• Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Statistics

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