Baseball Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Games, Guy

  "Major League Baseball plans to ban home plate collisions by 2015 at the latest", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2013.

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• I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Girlfriend, Mistake, Second Chance

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• If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.

  Pete Rose

  Giving Up, Block, Punishment

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.148, Rodale

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• The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

  Ernie Banks

  Playing Games, Games, Riches

  Sporting News, May 12, 1970.

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• I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Would Be, Able

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• I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.

  Satchel Paige

  Men, Bats, Use

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• It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

  Satchel Paige

  Body, Body Temperature

  LeRoy Paige, Satchel Paige (1993). “Maybe I'll Pitch Forever”, p.30, U of Nebraska Press

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• One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

  Satchel Paige

  Team, Knowing, Balls

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• There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

  Satchel Paige

  Men, Stronger, Earth

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• They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

  Satchel Paige

  Giving, Justice, Said

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• Don't eat fried food, it angries up the blood.

  Satchel Paige

  Blood, Fried Food

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• My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Player, Names, Kenneth

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• Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Names, Competition

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• Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

  Ishmael Reed

  Chicago, United States, Cubs

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• The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it.

  Bill Anderson

  Country, Player, Yankees

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• I love baseball.  You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything.  It’s just very beautiful to watch.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Mean, Watches

  Woody Allen (1987). “Three Films of Woody Allen”, Vintage

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• Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.

  Woody Allen

  Beer, Culture, Meatballs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.

  Thom Yorke

  Cry, Playing Baseball

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• I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

  Kurt Cobain

  Loser, Cigarette, Hanging Out

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• We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

  Kurt Cobain

  Sports, Team, Mean

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• These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that. Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They’d be telling our soldiers: ‘That’s enough. You’ve fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!’

  Tom Seaver

  Running, War, Kids

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