Baseball Quotes
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That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.
Topher Grace -
Baseball, however, is the most individual of team sports: In perfectly discernible packets the game reduces to one batter versus one pitcher, with each assuming responsibility for the other, every matchup a still photograph that flipped together form the moving picture we call nine innings.
Alan Schwarz
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I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.
Andrew Zimbalist -
You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.
Jerry Coleman -
At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.
Jerry Coleman -
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 -
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
Jerry Coleman -
We're not supposed to win, so it puts pressure on everybody else. We've played good baseball like we've done all year, and we're just being ourselves. People are going to continue to count us out, but at the same time, just be the White Sox that we were from the first game of the season.
Carl Everett
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Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.
Jerry Coleman -
The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.
Jerry Coleman -
You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down at times.
Big Money -
Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.
Jerry Coleman -
Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.
Mordecai Brown -
In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.
Curt Schilling
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In hockey I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.
Eric Gagne -
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
Reggie Jackson -
When it's your turn and guys are in scoring position, you want to get them in. If you don't, it's the guy behind them who will get them in. We play team baseball, and I know that is why we have been so successful.
Carl Everett -
While most American labor unions have struggled for the past several decades, professional baseball players comprise one of the strongest packs of organized workers in the world.
Mary Pilon -
People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.
Andrew Zimbalist -
Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
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Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
George Will -
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
Harry Reasoner -
Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.
Tom Golisano -
Your country is bigger than baseball.
Jerry Coleman