Baseball Quotes - Page 35

• Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

  Branch Rickey

  Change, Years, Ideas

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• Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

  Branch Rickey

  Sports, Games, Prejudice

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

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• I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

  Branch Rickey

  Football, Invasion, Subtle

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• It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.

  Branch Rickey

  Father, Player, Color

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• Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

  Tris Speaker

  Luck, Baseball Managers, Tris

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

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• Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Interest, Knows

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• Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

  Bob Feller

  Fun, League, Navy

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• Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home run or jumping up and down after a touchdown, a little boy comes to the surface.

  Roy Campanella

  Sports, Football, Running

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• Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

  Dizzy Dean

  Teacher, Kids

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• On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.

  Bud Selig

  Country, Taken, Games

  "Baseball great Kirby Puckett dies", edition.cnn.com. March 7, 2006.

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• How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.

  Bud Selig

  Past, Two, Jeter

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• It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

  Michael Lewis

  Team, People, Trying

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

  Michael Lewis

  Culture, Speak, Intense

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

  Michael Lewis

  Sports, Thinking, Talking

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

  Michael Lewis

  Play, Red, Enough

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

  Bill Dickey

  Jobs, Yankees, Mind

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

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• Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

  Frank Perdue

  Dream, Splinters

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• It's great to be young and a Yankee!

  Waite Hoyt

  Yankees, Young, New York Yankees

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• The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.

  Waite Hoyt

  Jobs, Lying, Yankees

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• I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

  Gerry Cooney

  Country, League, Trying

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

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• There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

  Tommy John

  Games, Celebrate, Should

  "Dr. Frank Jobe dies at age 88" by Mark Saxon, abcnews.go.com. March 07, 2014.

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• Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

  Vida Blue

  Boys, Stomach, Damn

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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• I'm not a fan of baseball really.

  Andrew Bogut

  Fans

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

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• I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseball’s greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himself…Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game.

  Ford Frick

  Grateful, Men, Thinking

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• Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.

  Ford Frick

  New York, Moving, California

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