Red Barber Quotes

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

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• When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Why
  • Wonder

• I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Baseball
  • Fame
  • Numbers

• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• It's fun; baseball's fun.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Fun
  • Baseball

• Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Road
  • Chance
  • Baseball

• In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • You
  • Stop
  • Learning

• I'm really bad at baseball.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Really

• I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

  

  Albert Pujols
  • Baseball

• 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
  • Life
  • Game
  • Success

• Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

  

  Bill Klem
  • Game
  • Baseball

• When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.

  

  James Carville
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Growing

• One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

  

  James Caan
  • Guy
  • Night
  • Son

• Baseball is my first love, and it's what I know, and it's what I'll do until I can't do it anymore, and I'm still hungry to do that.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Baseball

• One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

  

  Mark Walter
  • Time
  • Baseball

• Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it's not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being - too perfect.

  

  David Cassidy
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

  

  Dizzy Dean
  • People
  • English
  • Baseball

• Being a major-league baseball player is tough, so whenever you say 'face of the franchise,' I'm not trying to be that.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Trying
  • Player
  • Baseball

• The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

  

  Dusty Baker
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Learning

• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Good
  • Women
  • Society

• Let us bring the question to the test of experience and fact; and ask ourselves, considering our nature in its entire extent, what light we derive from a sustained and comprehensive view of its component parts, which may enable us to assert with certainty that we do or do not live after death.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Live
  • May
  • Experience

• I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • Different

• Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Life
  • Great
  • Suffering

• When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

  

  Red Barber
  • Baseball
  • Players
  • Clubhouse