Baseball Quotes - Page 7

• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  Hank Aaron

  Funny, Sports, Golf

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• A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

  Ban Johnson

  Umpires

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• I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Player, Who I Am, Stills

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• I keep my eys clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.

  Willie Keeler

  Ems, Clear Eyes, Clear

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• If you don't play to win, why keep score?

  Vern Law

  Winning, Play, Score

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• I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

  Casey Stengel

  Balls, Spit, Knows

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• I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Ties, Born

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

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• I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

  Jackie Robinson

  Motivational, Change, Respect

  "The Impact and Legacy Years, 1941, 1947, 1968". p. 100. Book by Fred Pulis, 2000.

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• President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

  Conan O'Brien

  Awkward, President, Cards

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• I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

  Tim McCarver

  Going Out, Bob, Pitching

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• But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

  John Thorn

  Dream, Hero, League

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• I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

  Casey Stengel

  Mlb, Practice, Inspirational Baseball

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• Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

  Joe Garagiola

  Sports, Running, Drama

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• When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

  Willie Stargell

  Softball, Mlb, Games

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• I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

  Ty Cobb

  War, Mlb, Heavy

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• Feeling is to lose a major league game.

  Chuck Tanner

  Games, League, Feelings

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• To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

  Steve Hovley

  Perfect, Example, Negative

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• Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Life Changing, Ocean, Simple

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• There is but one game and that game is baseball.

  John McGraw

  Games, Famous Baseball, Best Baseball

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• Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

  John Thorn

  Dream, Lucky, Bigs

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• The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

  Charles Kuralt

  Book, Thinking, Single Life

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• I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

  Rickey Henderson

  Retirement, Retiring, Retired

  "A Rickey Reunion?". Interview with Susan Slusser, www.sfgate.com. May 18, 2007.

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• I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

  Bea Arthur

  Lovely, Crowds, Fields

  TV Legends, August 6, 2005.

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• If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Singles, Home Run

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• How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Names, Long

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

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