Baseball Quotes - Page 36

• I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.

  Ernie Banks

  Running, Mother, Dad

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• The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

  Jim Bunning

  Player, Drug, Perception

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• It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

  Harmon Killebrew

  Integrity, Games, Drug

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• I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Father, Kids, Player

  "Answer Man: Andy Van Slyke talks slugging Bonds, coaching first". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 01, 2008.

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• I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

  David Cone

  School, Player, Retired

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• When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

  Miguel

  Play, Pressure, Feels

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• If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

  Chuck Tanner

  Atlanta, Brave, Way

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• How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

  Luke Scott

  Golf, Men, Knives

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• Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Men, Player

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

  Thomas Boswell

  Often Is, Everyday, Speech

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. There’s part of us, part of everybody who’s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level.

  Thomas Boswell

  Senior, Children, Emotional

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• Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.

  Thomas Boswell

  Football, Effort, Too Much

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• Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.

  Thomas Boswell

  Football, Spring, Mean

  Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

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• An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

  Thomas Boswell

  Team, Law, Red

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• I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.

  Mark Walter

  Decision, Fans, Want

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• It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.

  Miguel Cabrera

  Moments, Be Good, Happens

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• I take positives out of negatives all the time.

  David Wright

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• Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.

  David Wright

  Games, Another Day, Tomorrow

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• I’m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.

  David Wright

  Years, Want

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• As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

  David Wright

  Jobs, Caring, Hang Ups

  "Prince of the City". Sports Illustrated, May 22, 2006.

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• The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world champions of baseball.

  Harry Kalas

  Philadelphia, Champion, World

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• I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other hand, I had noticed that baseball announcers seemed to go right on forever. Bob Elson has been calling balls and strikes since the beginning of time. Harry Caray must have started with Abner Doubleday, and was still going strong.

  Lindsey Nelson

  Sports, Strong, Hands

  Lindsey Nelson (1985). “Hello everybody, I'm Lindsey Nelson”, William Morrow & Company

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• Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

  Tony La Russa

  Animal, Bats, Lasts

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• Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.

  Howard Frank Mosher

  Sports, Rooms, Cynicism

  Howard Frank Mosher (2014). “Waiting for Teddy Williams”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.

  Deion Sanders

  Football, Girlfriend, Married

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