Baseball Quotes
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If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad has to motivate you until you actually realize what you're doing.
Billy Butler
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There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.
Jerry Coleman
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At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.
Adam Dunn
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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.
A. G. Spalding
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Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.
Effa Manley
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I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.
Frank McCourt
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I was born to play baseball.
Roberto Clemente
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Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.
Jerry Coleman
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My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.
Jim Leyland
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His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.
Tom Hayden
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If you didn't love that game, you don't love baseball.
Nick Swisher
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Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
Ernie Harwell
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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!
George Carlin
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Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.
Bo Jackson
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Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
Stan Coveleski
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
Willie Mays
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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
Joe Torre
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Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
Casey Kasem
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I couldn't see well enough to play baseball when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.
Harry S Truman
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I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better.
Lloyd Blankfein
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A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.
Peter Ueberroth
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I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it's the simplest to watch.
Joe Garagiola
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Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
Bryce Harper