Baseball Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

  Roger Maris

  Doubt, Would Be, Individual

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• Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

  Mark Twain

  Struggle, Expression, Rage

  Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Mark Twain's speeches”

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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

  Walt Whitman

  Softball, Sports, Loss

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• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Running, Home

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• Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Coaching, Isms

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 2 Apr. 1984

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• Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

  Barry Switzer

  Life, Motivational, Sports

  "The Unknown Barry Switzer - Poverty, Tragedy Build Oklahoma Coach into a Winner". Chicago Tribune, December 14, 1986.

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• There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

  Charley Lau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Two

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• The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

  Casey Stengel

  Success, Sports, Hate

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• Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

  Ernie Harwell

  Sports, Simple, Bats

  "Ernie Harwell, in His Own Words" by Tyler Kepner, bats.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2010.

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• There is no room in baseball for a clown.

  Chuck Dressen

  Rooms, Clown

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• The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

  Gaylord Perry

  Years, Trouble, Rounds

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• I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

  John Kruk

  Athlete, Player, Baseball Player

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• A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

  Tom Seaver

  Athlete, Boys, Player

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• It's like deja-vu, all over again.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Yankees, Confusing

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

  Andre Dawson

  Hockey, Feelings, Puck

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• A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

  Phil Jackson

  Softball, Jobs, Player

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• It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

  Floyd Abrams

  Curves, Balls

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Distinction, Prose

  Robert Frost (1968). “Selected prose of Robert Frost”

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• Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Simple, Player

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• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  Earl Weaver

  Sports, Running, Winning

  Investiture Speech by Mark Becker, Georgia State University President, president.gsu.edu. October 20, 2009.

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• It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

  Rick Monday

  Famous Baseball, Giggle

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• The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Tired, Humor

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  A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

  Ted Williams

  Inspirational, Men, People

  Ted Williams, John Underwood (1988). “My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

  Curt Schilling

  Sports, Achieve

  "Q&A: Curt Schilling". Interview with Ben Glicksman, www.si.com. November 30, 2010.

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