Baseball Quotes
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You know how you speed up baseball? Everybody gets one swing. That's it one swing fuck you, you're out sit down!
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To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out. Crookedness and baseball do not mix. It has become immeasurably more popular as the years have gone by. It will be greater yet. This year, 1919, is the greatest season of them all.
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I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.
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Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.
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How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.
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I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
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We're going to the World Series, ... It sounds weird to say if off my lips. Finally the baseball gods shined on us.
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When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.
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No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.
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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
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Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.
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I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.
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I can push through a lot of things, whether that's failure or success. I don't know how to explain it. I've learned how to overcome things that get thrown at you. In baseball, nothing's for certain, just like life. You have to roll with the punches. If you get knocked down, you need to stand up.
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Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.
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I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.
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Baseball continues, life continues, and I have to continue to work.
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I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.
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Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.
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Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
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I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
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Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.
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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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I don't see any baseball expansion right now. If it were up to me, I would contract two teams. But I certainly don't think expansion on the horizon.
