Baseball Quotes - Page 38

• When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Hard Work, People, League

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• When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

  Johnny Pesky

  Sleep, Beer, Winning

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• When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Player, Errors

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• His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.

  Tom Hayden

  Funny, Dog, Strong

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• There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.

  Laurie Colwin

  Funny Inspirational, Party, Winter

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• To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Success, Succeed, Adjustment

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• Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

  Michael Jordan

  Success, Basketball, Progress

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• Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

  Grantland Rice

  Games, Class, Personality

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• If all of us who love baseball and are doing our jobs, then those who get the game from us will be as proud to be a part of it as we were. And we are. This game is a gift, and I am humbled, very humbled, to accept its greatest honor.

  Joe Torre

  Jobs, Games, Honor

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• Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Yankees, Steel, Funny Baseball

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 29 June 1958.

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• I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

  Bill James

  Mind, My Family, I Can

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• If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

  Ernie Harwell

  Thinking, Years, Would Be

  Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

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• Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

  Ernie Harwell

  Running, Dog, Home

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• Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.

  Ernie Harwell

  Continuity, Seasons

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• I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

  Jason Dohring

  Basketball, Sports, Golf

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• I'm not as anti-sports as I've led people to believe - I've been to a Giants game. I've been to Giants Stadium and I've watched games. I've watched lots of them, you know? I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.

  Kevin Corrigan

  Sports, Football, Believe

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. February 2, 2010.

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• I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

  Bill de Blasio

  Mlb, Fans, Obsessed

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

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• I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

  Roger Angell

  Player, Want, Scared

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• Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.

  Roger Angell

  Loyalty, Beer, Years

  Roger Angell (2013). “The Roger Angell Baseball Collection: The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket”, p.1294, Open Road Media

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• He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have.

  Duke Snider

  Pressure, Unbearable, Enormous

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• I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

  Harry Callahan

  Art, Be Good, Things To Do

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• I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.

  John McGraw

  Player, Names, Careers

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• If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

  John McGraw

  Team, Player, Pie

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• Everything is contagious in baseball.

  Rex Hudler

  Contagious

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• If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.

  Stephanie Klein

  Hurt, Real, Lying

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