Opening Day Quotes

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  You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Birthday, Sports, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

  Mary Schmich

  Baseball, Disappointment, Hangover

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.220, Agate Digital

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• I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Years, Giving

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• Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

  Jean Ingelow

  Flower, Good Day, Light

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.264

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• There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

  George Vecsey

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  George Vecsey (1989). “A Year in the Sun: The Games, the Players, the Pleasure of Sports”, Crown Publishers

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• I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Giving, Television

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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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 see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  Walt Whitman

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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

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• It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Motivational, Summer, Softball

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

  Jim Leyland

  Song, Humorous, Player

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• 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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• I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him out on a breaking ball down-and-in and next at bat he hit the same pitch for a home run. I was telling my kids that story yesterday.

  Curt Young

  Running, Home, Kids

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• Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office!

  Laura Ingraham

  New York, Passion, Office

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• I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense. It looked as if God had sent in a team of the world's finest artists overnight-and I was privy to the opening day of his spectacle. As I slowly drove along this festive row, leaves danced in the air and brushed against my windshield. It seemed as if I had landed in Oz. I was strongly tempted to get out and clap at God's imagination.

  Sheila Walsh

  Beauty, Team, Fall

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• There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

  George Brett

  Baseball, Blood, Years

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• Today was opening day for the new Congress in Washington. And Vice President Joe Biden swore in the new batch of White House fence jumpers.

  David Letterman

  White, House, President

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• He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.

  Lefty Gomez

  Two, Yankees, Way

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• Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

  Jimmy Connors

  Play, Tennis, Finals

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• I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Spring

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

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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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• When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

  Vance Law

  Baseball, Slumps, Looks

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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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• That’s not me. I wouldn’t [take paternity leave.] Quite frankly, I would have said C-section before the season starts. I need to be at Opening Day. I’m sorry.

  Boomer Esiason

  Sorry, Needs, Said

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• This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.

  Conan O'Brien

  Children, Parks, Firsts

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