Baseball Quotes - Page 9

• It's fun; baseball's fun.

  Yogi Berra

  Fun

  "'Driving Mr. Yogi': A Diamond Of A Friendship". wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu. April 3, 2012.

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• I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

  Wade Boggs

  Motivational, Sports, Knowing

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• Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Born, Given

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• I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

  George Steinbrenner

  Yankees, Agency, Ruins

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• Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

  Christy Mathewson

  Sports, Umpires, Luxury

  Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.76, Penguin

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• What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

  Bill Veeck

  Wall, Reading, Men

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• Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Get Better, Reason

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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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• He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

  Sandy Koufax

  Way, Figures, One Way

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• Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.

  Jerry Izenberg

  Spring, Games, Tree

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Success, Hate

  FaceBook post by Derek Jeter from Aug 29, 2012

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• In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

  Neville Cardus

  Average, Law, Games

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• As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Player, Years

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• My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

  Willie Stargell

  Retirement, Jobs, Narrators

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• Baseball is a game of inches.

  Branch Rickey

  Games, Inches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Football, War

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• Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Tough, Life Is

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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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• Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Years, Famous Baseball

  Babe Ruth, Bob Considine (1948). “The Babe Ruth story as told to Bob Considine: with 49 photos”

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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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• 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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