Top 1200 Great Baseball Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
I have sets, literally, of almost every single year of Strat-O-Matic baseball. That's how huge I was into it.
I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been a very strong, dominant position.
You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.
You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.
I played baseball when I was younger, but the idea of the college scholarship enticed me to switch over to softball.
When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.
When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
As a member of Congress, I'm often reminded that in baseball, as in diplomacy, you have to know when to hit, when to run, and when to show grace.
If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
People ask me, "What would you be doing without baseball?" I don't know... super-sizing fries?
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.
If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball.
The peacocking nature of baseball players and athletes in general - you're all kinda competing for who's got the most swagger.
Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.
I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.
I'm really into basketball, baseball, football and working out - but you'll never catch me in a public sauna.
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
Being a major-league baseball player is tough, so whenever you say 'face of the franchise,' I'm not trying to be that.
My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.
That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.
He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.
What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.
Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.
I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.
Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
To me, baseball is, in some ways, other than my family and wife, my life, and it always will be.
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone`s shortlist of best baseball writers ever.
I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.
The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
I tried many sports like football, baseball, and swimming. I even played saxophone and piano.
No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.
I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.
Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.
There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.
As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that is so hot?'
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.
America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.
I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.
There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.
I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
I try to think shorter swing with two strikes. That's how I was raised and taught the game of baseball.
Adnan Virk and I work so well together, he's got the terrific background from hosting 'Baseball Tonight.'
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.
Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.
