Baseball Quotes
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It's like, baseball is a very good game, but it's very difficult to explain to somebody, if you stop and think about it. I just feel my life is like that.
Leon Russell
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Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.
William Feather
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A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
Joe Torre
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That home run ties it up, 1-0.
Jerry Coleman
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I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.
Home Run Baker
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Baseball is the life.
Steve Garvey
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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
Mickey Mantle
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I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.
Willie Lee McCovey
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I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
Pete Rose
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They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.
Mike Quade
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I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it’s just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.
Deacon Jones
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We'll see after this week. I'm very happy right now to see this team bouncing back and seeing what we can do. If we come out and play good baseball, I'll put our chances up against anybody.
Brad Wilkerson
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That's the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you're entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That's why it's the best game.
Johnny Bench
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From the standpoint of family entertainment, baseball remains very affordable compared against comparable entertainment. MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.
Bob DuPuy
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The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about
Cal Ripken, Sr.
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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
Ernest Hemingway
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Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.
Carlos Cuaron
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I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
Joe Garagiola
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As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.
Carl Everett
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In baseball, nothing surprises me. I understand this is a business.
Jose Reyes
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Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.
Jerry Coleman
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I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me... Every year I played in the big leagues, the day the season ended, I called my buddies in West Virginia and said, 'I'll be home tomorrow.'
John Kruk
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I just want to play baseball.
David Ortiz