Inspirational Baseball Quotes - Page 2

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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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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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 is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

Joe Garagiola

Sports, Baseball, Running

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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Lou Holtz

Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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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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How can you think and hit at the same time?

Yogi Berra

Sports, Baseball, Yoga

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I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Rogers Hornsby

Baseball, Golf, Mlb

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There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

Tommy Lasorda

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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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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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Hank Aaron

Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

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

Rogers Hornsby

Inspirational, Baseball, Heart

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You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Pete Rose

Motivational, Sports, Baseball

Pete Rose, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Pete Rose on hitting: how to hit better than anybody”, Perigee

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No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

Tommy Lasorda

Baseball, Hockey, Winning

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What's tough is being good every day.

Willie Mays

Inspirational, Sports, Game Day

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It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

Willie Mays

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Ty Cobb

Baseball, Fun, Struggle

Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Ty Cobb

Baseball, War, Mlb

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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

Tommy Lasorda

Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.

Derek Jeter

Inspiring, Success, Winning

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

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There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

Charley Lau

Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Joe DiMaggio

Family, Sports, Baseball

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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