Famous Baseball Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

  Joe DiMaggio

  Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Want

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• The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

  Steve Garvey

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

  "There's No I in Team, But Me Plays a Big Role" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2012.

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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 didn't really say everything I said.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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• There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

  Lou Gehrig

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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

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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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  My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

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  There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

  Derek Jeter

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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• I never said most of the things I said.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Witty

  "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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• A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Men, Goal

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

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

  Earl Wilson

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

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• I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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

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• Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Yankees, Bills

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• I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

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• We made too many wrong mistakes.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Mistake

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.36, Workman Publishing

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

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Baseball, Coaching

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 2 Apr. 1984

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• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

  Yogi Berra

  Beauty, Baseball, Yankees

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

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