Major League Quotes

• 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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• When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, League, Bullshit

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• Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

  Bud Selig

  Baseball, Stars, America

  "Quotes from congressional steroid hearing". The Associated Press, NBC Sports, March 17, 2005.

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• Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.

  Jay Leno

  Baseball, Running, Hurt

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• Feeling is to lose a major league game.

  Chuck Tanner

  Baseball, Games, League

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• Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Baseball, Home

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• When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Baseball, Real, Player

  "Baseball's Greatest Quotes". Book by Paul Dickson, 1991.

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• Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.

  Pete Rose

  Vacation, October, Bigs

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• I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

  Brooks Robinson

  Baseball, Play, League

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• Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

  Jennie Finch

  Inspirational, Basketball, Softball

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• Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers." She slapped my back. "Welcome to high school.

  Harlan Coben

  Senior, Teacher, School

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• A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

  David Cone

  Travel, Jobs, Commitment

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• The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.

  Chuck LaMar

  Sports, Baseball, Loss

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• If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

  George Carlin

  Baseball, Team, Stupid

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

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• It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.

  Mario Cuomo

  Summer, Baseball, Memories

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• I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Cities, League

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• Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

  Jackie Robinson

  Baseball, Gambling, Mlb

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• I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.

  Simon Sinek

  Games, Play, League

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• So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

  Ben Stein

  Media, League, Wife

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• Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.

  James Surowiecki

  Soccer, Baseball, Player

  "Scrimmage". www.newyorker.com. March 21, 2011.

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• The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

  Eddie Vedder

  Baseball, Interesting, League

  Interview with Josh Brolin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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• Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

  William Feather

  Baseball, Acceptance, Men

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• Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes

  Curt Flood

  Baseball, Years, League

  Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)

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• As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

  Steven Conrad

  Girl, Princess, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I used to be hyper, throw crazy and not think about what I wanted to do with each pitch. Now I have a better understanding of what it is to be a major league pitcher.

  Johan Santana

  Crazy, Thinking, League

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