Baseball Quotes
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I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.
Casey Affleck -
Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
Hillary Clinton
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I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.
Ernest Lanigan -
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Nolan Ryan -
I spent a lot of hours on the baseball field doing whatever I could do to get better.
Evan Longoria -
Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
Casey Kasem -
They know the game of baseball. They've been in every game. It's been a great love affair for us so far.
Brad Wilkerson -
Baseball is not a grind for me.
Steve Finley
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Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
Nolan Ryan -
We'll see after this week. I'm very happy right now to see this team bouncing back and seeing what we can do. If we come out and play good baseball, I'll put our chances up against anybody.
Brad Wilkerson -
You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.
Mike Quade -
We're optimistic it will be voted in Turin, and baseball and softball will be reinstated, ... We were encouraged.
Bob DuPuy -
It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.
George Will -
Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.
Mike Barnicle
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They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
George Will -
Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
Ernie Harwell -
Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.
George Will -
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.
George Will -
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
Ernie Harwell -
In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.
George Will
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I have never discussed a player contract with an agent and I like to think I never will.
Walter O'Malley -
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.
George Will -
I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
Satchel Paige -
America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.
George Will