Famous Baseball Quotes - Page 6

• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Hitting, Fifty

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

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• All I have is natural ability.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Natural, Ability

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• When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

  Vance Law

  Baseball, Slumps, Looks

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• My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Dad, School

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

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• Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

  Bob Lemon

  Funny, Baseball, Kids

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• When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better

  Joe Torre

  Baseball, Sleep, Feel Better

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• Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Games, Two

  W. P. Kinsella (1983). “Shoeless Joe”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

  Rick Monday

  Baseball, Giggle

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• There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

  Honus Wagner

  Baseball, Greatest Baseball, Ifs

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

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• A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

  Joe Morgan

  Baseball, Games, Stealing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

  George Carlin

  Sports, Baseball, Mirrors

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.

  Richie Ashburn

  Baseball, Pain, Ass

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• It ain't nothing till I call it.

  Bill Klem

  Baseball

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• What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over.

  Rick Monday

  Baseball, Thinking, Concerned

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• The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Sorry, Player

  A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.

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• It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

  Jack Buck

  Beautiful, Sports, Baseball

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• Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies

  Gabby Hartnett

  Baseball, Enemy, Hacks

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• Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Stress, Spring

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

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• Ok you guys, pair up in threes!

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Guy, Pairs

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• Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

  Stan Coveleski

  Baseball, Worry, Lord

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• Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

  Durwood Merrill

  Sports, Baseball, Fields

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• Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

  Al Stump

  Baseball, Careers, Answers

  "Cobb: A Biography".

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

  George Steinbrenner

  Baseball, Yankees, Agency

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• I am the best in baseball.

  Reggie Jackson

  Baseball, I Am The Best

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• I have always been a firm believer that the game has never belonged to the owners. It has never belonged to the ballplayers. It belongs to the guy who puts his money up on the window and says, 'How much does it cost to sit in the bleachers?' That is who owns baseball. And it has got to be kept that way.

  Johnny Vander Meer

  Baseball, Games, Guy

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