Motivational Baseball Quotes - Page 2

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

John Wooden

Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

"The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Tommy Lasorda

Motivational, Success, Congratulations

Tommy Lasorda, David Fisher (1986). “The Artful Dodger”, Avon Books

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Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Babe Ruth

Success, Baseball, Fear

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Babe Ruth

Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

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

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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

"Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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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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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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When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

Carl Yastrzemski

Baseball, Get Up, Knocked Down

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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Casey Stengel

Motivational, Teamwork, Baseball

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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Casey Stengel

Baseball, Mlb, Practice

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

Charley Lau

Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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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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I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

Bob Lemon

Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Mlb

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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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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

Walt Whitman

Softball, Sports, Baseball

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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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What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Dean Smith

Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

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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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How can you think and hit at the same time?

Yogi Berra

Sports, Baseball, Yoga

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