Baseball Quotes

• If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I didn't want to go to college, and my parents said, 'Well, then you'd better get a job, because we're not paying for you to drop out of school.' So I delivered pizza near USC for a while. We had to wear khakis and a baseball hat with the logo on it, and I worked almost every day.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • School
  • Job
  • Parents

• 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
  • Game
  • Words
  • Light

• Major League Baseball is doing everything to make the game as clean as possible.

  

  Matt Cain
  • Game
  • Baseball

• I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • School
  • Kids
  • Want

• To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

  

  Dave Winfield
  • People
  • Simple
  • Baseball

• I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • College
  • Football
  • Baseball

• I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I'd make one a week, and finally, I'd pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.

  

  Lou Gehrig
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Bad

• You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

  

  Cory Lidle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Air

• I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Cancer

• There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Family
  • Baseball

• If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Different
  • Professional

• Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

  

  Jacob Ruppert
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Baseball

• I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

  

  Jason Dohring
  • Guy
  • Sports
  • Golf

• I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Baseball
  • Very
  • Follow

• 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

• And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

  

  Dave Winfield
  • Life
  • Great
  • Desire

• My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Dad

• Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes - pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.

  

  Keith Jackson
  • Game
  • Fear
  • Pain

• But it don't bother me. I never yet saw anybody hit the baseball with their face. Besides, I like to get kidded; that means they like me. When they stop kidding me, I'm in trouble.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Stop
  • Baseball

• Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Real
  • Father
  • Game

• It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Team

• I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Football

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