Playing Baseball Quotes

• Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

  Alvin Dark

  Baseball, Sunshine, Player

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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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• 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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• Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Stealing

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• I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Baseball, Jobs

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• I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

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• It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Football

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• Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

  Hilary Duff

  Leadership, Softball, Sports

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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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• Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

  Dale Murphy

  Baseball, Dream, Real

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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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• When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

  Willie Stargell

  Softball, Baseball, Mlb

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  Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

  Bo Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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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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• 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 only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Play

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• I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Baseball, Dream, Morning

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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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• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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  It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Games

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.42, U of Nebraska Press

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• If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

  FaceBook post by Derek Jeter from Aug 29, 2012

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• It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Play

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• It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

  Willie Stargell

  Baseball, Fun, Men

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• Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

  Norm Cash

  Baseball, Mean, Years

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