Inspirational Baseball Quotes - Page 3

• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

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

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• When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Fun, Play

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

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision.

  Roger Angell

  Beautiful, Baseball, Distance

  Roger Angell (2013). “Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

  Steve Hovley

  Baseball, Perfect, Example

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• Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Sports, Baseball, Home

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

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• This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Baseball, Mlb

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• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Poetry, Pitching

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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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• Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Baseball, Dignity, Advantage

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

  Pete Hamill

  Baseball, Morning, Kids

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

  Chuck Tanner

  Baseball, Winning, Mlb

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• I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Swings, Hitting Home Runs

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

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• The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Confidence, Baseball

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• If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

  Joe Namath

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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• Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Funny Sports

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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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• You're never a loser until you quit trying.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Opportunity, Games

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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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