Baseball Quotes - Page 37

• I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.

  Joe Posnanski

  People, Arguing, Boring

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• Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.

  Nate Silver

  Games, Economy

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.136, Penguin

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• I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Golf, Japan, Play

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• In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Loss, Different, Done

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• Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

  Reggie Bush

  Sports, Wish, Firsts

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• Learn what pitch you can hit good; then wait for that pitch.

  Willie Keeler

  Waiting

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• I felt I was duty-bound under contract to stick with Cleveland, and I can truthfully say, in all my playing days there and everywhere, I never shirked a duty to baseball.

  Joe

  Cleveland, Sticks, Contracts

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• But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.

  Chad Harbach

  Sports, Errors, Mind

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• The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

  George V. Higgins

  Children, Passion, Garden

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• If you are worshipping false gods-such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silver-and you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sunday-repent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.

  Hartman Rector, Jr.

  Life, Football, Money

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• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  Walter Alston

  Sports, Psychology, Things To Do

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• Sure, it's nice to win. But there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose. . . . I don't love baseball, I like it. And to me, baseball means money, and that's all I care about.

  Vida Blue

  Love, Nice, Mean

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• I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.

  Jay Johnstone

  Marine, Shoes, Rifles

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• To me, personally, it doesn't matter what color I am. Black or white, Asian or Hispanic, it doesn't matter to me as long as the message I'm portraying to people that watch me on TV is positive and it shows that they can do things that are different besides catching a football, hitting a baseball or shooting a basketball. I'm just showing them that stepping outside the bubble is OK and they can be successful at it.

  Shani Davis

  Basketball, Football, Successful

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• I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.

  Willie Wilson

  Sports, Team, Skills

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• Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.

  Paul Konerko

  Player, Elements, Suits

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• Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

  George Steinbrenner

  Beer, Judging, Economy

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• Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Life, Thank You

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• I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

  Matthew Modine

  Silly, Cards, Kind

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• Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

  Bill James

  Cereal, People, Needs

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• To be honest, I never thought I'd be famous for baseball. I want to play basketball, and I could also do both basketball and baseball - but I really want to play basketball.

  Mo'ne Davis

  Basketball, Badass, Play

  "Mo’ne Davis on this week’s national Sports Illustrated cover". Sports Illustrated Interview, www.si.com. August 19, 2014.

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• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Thinking, Genre Is, Use

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

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• Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Taken, Two, Sweaters

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• Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Race, Pregnant Women, Thirds

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• On the appearance of Clayton Moore at a Blue Jays home game - It's not very often you get to see the Lone Ranger and Toronto in the same night.

  Bobby Bragan

  Home, Night, Games

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