Baseball Quotes
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I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
Mark McGwire
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After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.
W. P. Kinsella
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My parents didn't know what to do with me. They got me into Little League Baseball, I played out in right field, cause I stunk.
Brian Regan
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I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
Bill Terry
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Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
Bob Uecker
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I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
George Brett
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Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.
Kenneth R. Miller
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
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I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.
Alex Pettyfer
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Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.
Curt Flood
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I played baseball as a left-handed first baseman, though never as well as I did quarterbacking.
Bob Sheppard
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Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
Leo Durocher
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Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them.
Curt Flood
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I'm playing every day. I still want to win.
Gary Sheffield
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I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Just throwing the ball, running around, fielding ground balls, you know. It's better to me than being on a treadmill or some sort of Zumba class.
Billy Crystal
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I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.
Chuck Connors
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Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.
George Will
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The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.
Andris Nelsons
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I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that way of knocking you back down to earth.
Chipper Jones
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Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
Branch Rickey
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I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13' written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.
Scotty McCreery
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My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.
David Ortiz
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Wearing a baseball cap or sleeveless shirt in a white-tablecloth restaurant is rude and makes other diners upset, just like someone on a cellphone.
Danny Meyer
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I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.
Carl Yastrzemski