Baseball Quotes
-
Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
-
Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
-
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
-
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.
-
They know the game of baseball. They've been in every game. It's been a great love affair for us so far.
-
Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
-
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
-
Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.
-
Your country is bigger than baseball.
-
Baseball is not a grind for me.
-
I spent a lot of hours on the baseball field doing whatever I could do to get better.
-
Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.
-
Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.
-
Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
-
It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.
-
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.
-
Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.
-
Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.
-
Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.
-
The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
-
I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.
-
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.’
-
(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.
-
Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.
