Baseball Quotes
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You see the Latin passion for baseball. This is how we play all the time. It's a good idea.
Pedro Martinez -
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
Willie Mays
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Thomas Sowell -
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
Bo Jackson -
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 -
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 -
Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
Ernie Harwell -
He's not really a difficult interview. You just have to catch the essence and rhythm of what he's saying. I'd ask him how baseball has changed over the past 25 years and he'd start telling me about his life as a dental student in Kansas City.
Arnold Hano
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I stay focused on baseball. I go to the field, go to my apartment, that's all. ... I don't need to do nothing.
Felix Hernandez -
Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.
Jerry Coleman -
Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
Roberto Clemente -
You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.
Alex Bregman -
Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.
Jerry Coleman -
The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
Satchel Paige
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I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.
Carlos Delgado -
Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game of baseball.
Andrew McCutchen -
Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
Ernie Harwell -
National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.
Jerry Coleman -
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
Ernie Harwell -
Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.
Jerry Coleman
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Recently, my dad has been teaching me a lot - like how to read a script. It used to just be about hockey or baseball or sports of whatever. We don't have glitzy or glamour-y Hollywood-type talk, like, 'Isn't that person great?' It's more about the process of how it works.
Wyatt Russell -
Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.
Tom Hanks -
First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees -
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