Baseball Quotes - Page 38

• I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

  John Lee Hooker

  Song, Writing, Games

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• In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

  John Thorn

  Team, Years, Way

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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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• 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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• Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.

  John Thorn

  Fall, Player, Sky

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• I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

  Jon Lovitz

  Cheer, Fun, Self

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

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• I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Play, Fans, Wanted

  "NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". "Travis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 7, 2011.

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• Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Sports, Kids, My Favorite

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• Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

  Marvin Olasky

  Spring, Needs, Eras

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• I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Fighting, Army

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

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• I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

  Nate Silver

  Football, Play, High Standards

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• I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run.

  Herbert Hoover

  Running, Games, Two

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• I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

  Pete Rose

  Damn, Damn Things

  "Pete Rose Admits He Bet on Baseball". ABC News, abcnews.go.com.

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• I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Night, Bed, Worried

  "Rose on gambling, baseball and the Hall". Interview with Graham Bensinger, www.espn.com. January 19, 2006.

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• You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

  Pete Rose

  Stupid, Fans, Doe

  "Rose on gambling, baseball and the Hall". Interview with Graham Bensinger, www.espn.com. January 19, 2006.

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• I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Wish, Firsts, Remember

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". abcnews.go.com. January 12, 2017.

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• I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

  Pete Rose

  Mistake, Team, Games

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". Online Q & A, abcnews.go.com. January 12.

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• No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

  Pete Rose

  Player, Games, Helping

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". Online Q & A with ABC NEWS viewers, abcnews.go.com.

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• Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

  Peter Tork

  Skills, Bats, Watches

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• I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

  Rickey Henderson

  Father, Athlete, Men

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• Baseball wasn't easy for me.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Easy

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• The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

  Vince Gill

  Mom, Dad, Real

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• That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

  Willie Mays

  Player, Guy, Trying

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

  Pete Rose

  Want, Way, Enough

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