Great Baseball Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Sports

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  Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

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

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• You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

  Roy Campanella

  Baseball, Boys, Men

  Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

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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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• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Motivational, Baseball

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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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 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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• It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.

  Chuck Tanner

  Baseball, Winning, Mlb

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• Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Inspirational, Baseball, Heart

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• There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.

  Al Gallagher

  Baseball, Order, Three

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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 usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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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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• I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Baseball, Dream, Morning

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• It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

  "Stay Sought-After by Connecting Better in Conversation" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

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• If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Magic, Coaching

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Mother, Sorry

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• Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Games, Pace

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "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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• 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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• It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

  Ernie Banks

  Baseball, Playing Games, Two

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

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• I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

  Kevin Costner

  Believe, Kissing, Long

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• I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

  Susan Sarandon

  Motivational, Baseball, Soul

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