Baseball Quotes
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When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.
Roberto Clemente -
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
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I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.
Roberto Clemente -
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?
George Will -
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 -
I guess that, as a girl from Washington state, I am attracted to a little scruff and men who are able to roll out of bed, throw on a baseball cap, and call it a day.
Mikaela Hoover -
I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
Ryne Sandberg -
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
William Feather
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Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
George Will -
When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.
Ryan Sypek -
This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.
Carl Pohlad -
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
Harry Reasoner -
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
Ernie Banks -
McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.
Jerry Coleman
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Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.
Jerry Coleman -
I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.
Jerry Coleman -
Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.
Jerry Coleman -
That home run ties it up, 1-0.
Jerry Coleman -
The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started.
Jerry Coleman -
I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.
Mike Piazza
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Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.
David Wright -
Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
Roberto Clemente -
Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball.
Dellin Betances -
You see the Latin passion for baseball. This is how we play all the time. It's a good idea.
Pedro Martinez