Baseball Quotes
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That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.
Jerry Coleman -
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
George Steinbrenner
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The Padres are really swinging some hot hats tonight!
Jerry Coleman -
When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.
Rollie Fingers -
In baseball, you've got to keep working.
Danny Bautista -
I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.
Jerry Coleman -
Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
Ernie Harwell -
Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.
George Will
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
George Will -
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
Ernie Harwell -
Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.
Judy Johnson -
I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
Sargent Shriver -
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’
Ernie Harwell -
Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.
Walter O'Malley
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John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.
Judy Johnson -
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
Nolan Ryan -
And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.
Jerry Coleman -
Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!
Ernie Harwell -
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
Evan Bayh -
I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.
Mike Trout
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I've been playing baseball since I was four. I've got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.
Hanley Ramirez -
You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.
Jerry Coleman -
We're important to ESPN. We fill up a lot of space for them in the summer. We're their programming in the summer. If you look at 'SportsCenter,' most nights in the summer, it's, what, 70 percent baseball.
Bob DuPuy -
I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.
Willie Wilson