Baseball Quotes - Page 35

• George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.

  Robert Kroetsch

  Running, Fun, Reading

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• Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.

  Woody Allen

  Beer, Culture, Meatballs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game.

  Pete Rose

  Running, Valentine, Mean

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• I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

  Babe Ruth

  Play, Salary, Half

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• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

  Babe Ruth

  Brother, Father, Fighting

  "Baseball as I Have Known It". Book by Fred Lieb, p. 154, 1977.

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• I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination and technically hit a baseball.

  Barry Bonds

  Believe, Eye, Hands

  "'IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON' / Bonds brushes off steroid questions, praises baseball's new drug rules'" by Henry Schulman, www.sfgate.com. February 23, 2005.

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• I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Father, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, College, Thinking

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

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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 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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• The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

  Willie Mays

  College, Thinking, Should Have

  "What It Takes" with Alice Winkler., learningenglish.voanews.com. August 25, 2017.

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• I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game

  Willie Mays

  Years, Games, People

  Interview with Willie Mays, Academy of Achievement, February 19, 1996.

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• I think there are some players born to play ball.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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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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• May the sun never set on American baseball.

  Harry S. Truman

  Sun, May, American Baseball

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• I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York

  David Wright

  New York, Winning, Boxing

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• Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

  Bill Goldberg

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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• I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

  Catherine Bell

  Basketball, Football, Kids

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

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• I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

  Jonah Hill

  Inspirational, Basketball, Dad

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

  Scott Caan

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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

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• "And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11". So I just picked baseball."

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Basketball, Father

  "What It Takes: Willie Mays". Interview with Alice Winkler, learningenglish.voanews.com. August 25, 2017.

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• I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

  Claudio Reyna

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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• I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

  Steven Chu

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

  Abel Ferrara

  Guitar, Creative, Cameras

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2002.

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• Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

  Alyssa Milano

  Childhood

  "Alyssa Milano debuts clothing line". Interview with Mark Newman, mlb.mlb.com. April 12, 2007.

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