Famous Baseball Quotes - Page 2

• During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Mean

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

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, School, Kids

  "Yogi Berra: The greatest financial planner ever?" by Ric Edelman, www.cnbc.com. January 25, 2016.

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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, Baseball, Men

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

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• It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Summer, Baseball

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• He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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• I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Games, Twenties

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• One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

  Jim Abbott

  Beautiful, Baseball, Pitching

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

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

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• My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Philosophy, Simple

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• After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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

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• Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Stealing

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• You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Hands, Long

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• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2017

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• Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Art

  "Involvements : One Journalist's Place in the World". Book by Colman McCarthy (p. 243), 1984.

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  Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

  Babe Ruth

  Success, Baseball, Fear

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• I didn't really say everything I said.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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• All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Sock, Ask Me

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

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• Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!

  Dave Niehaus

  Funny, Baseball, Food

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• Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

  Philip K. Wrigley

  Sports, Baseball, Too Much

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• If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

  Brooks Robinson

  Baseball, Jobs, Ready

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• I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Baseball, Night

  Yogi Berra, Ed Fitzgerald (1961). “Yogi: The Autobiography of a Professional Baseball Player”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Fun

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  Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Rain

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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

  John McGraw

  Baseball, Games, Best Baseball

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• I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Wish, Fields

  "Joe DiMaggio / The Yankee Clipper / `You Followed Whatever He Did'" by David Lennon, www.newsday.com. March 08, 1999.

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