Funny Baseball Quotes - Page 4

• A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.

  Ken Singleton

  Baseball, Men, Lord

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• When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

  Willie Stargell

  Softball, Baseball, Mlb

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• I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Stars, Gambling

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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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• It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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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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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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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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• 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

  Baseball, Writing, Distinction

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

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• The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

  Chuck Tanner

  Baseball, Winning, Games

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• The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

  Don Drysdale

  Baseball, Mlb, Hitting

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• Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

  Joe Schultz

  Baseball, Boys, Squares

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• Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Baseball, Moving

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• I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Softball, Baseball

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 10 June 1982

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• I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Moving, Games

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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• I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.

  Eddie Bane

  Funny, Baseball, Thinking

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• I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.

  Bob Lemon

  Funny, Baseball, Home

  "Passage: Bob Lemon, 79". www.wired.com. January 13, 2000.

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• It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Football

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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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• Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

  Robert J. LeRoy

  Motivational, Baseball, Men

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• Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

  Dick Gregory

  Baseball, Humorous, Men

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• I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Men

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• I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.

  Phil Rizzuto

  Baseball, Funny Inspirational, Play

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• Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

  Bill Veeck

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Running

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