I would compare kicking to being a closer in baseball. This whole game gets played, or the cake is made in front… — Adam Vinatieri Copy Share Image
You don't have to be big to be a big leaguer. Look at Phil Rizzuto. He's really small and he's been one… — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I first got into gambling because it was a way for me to leverage my love of baseball statistics. For the first… — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch,… — Lou Boudreau Copy Share Image
A lot of people tell me now I'm their inspiration. They say, 'I don't play baseball,' and then they mention whatever -… — Jose Altuve Copy Share Image
The catch off Bobby Morgan (a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn… — Willie Mays Copy Share Image
Let's try to find ten good things to say about Albert Belle: 10. So far as we know, he's never killed anyone.… — Bill James Copy Share Image
I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
The first year was weird. I knew I was just there to talk to pitchers and not step on any toes. I… — Goose Gossage Copy Share Image
I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
Let's say, for example, I'm playing ball but I decide to slack in school. I feel like that's going to carry over… — Buster Posey Copy Share Image
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The crowd and its team had finally understood that in games, as in many things, the ending, the final score, is only… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
There's a lot of good Latin personnel out in baseball, coaching, in the front office, and it's nice to be recognized. But… — Dave Martinez Copy Share Image
It's like, baseball is a very good game, but it's very difficult to explain to somebody, if you stop and think about… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ways to win a Major League Baseball game; it's not always gonna be us scoring a ton of… — Marcus Semien Copy Share Image
I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been… — Hideki Matsui Copy Share Image
Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also,… — Carlos Ruiz Copy Share Image
My dad was always at work running a business, so our mom really took care of us. She'd bring us all to… — Dan Gronkowski Copy Share Image
At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I played baseball in high school, and in some parallel universe, if I had not gone into filmmaking, I may have been… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Two things help me be a winner. One is I try to stay on an even keel. I don't get too high… — Ila Borders Copy Share Image
It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If you want to get to know me, you have to get off the baseball field. Because when I'm on the field,… — Jeff Kent Copy Share Image
I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is… — Gary Sheffield Copy Share Image
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they… — George Will Copy Share Image
“In our beautiful memory We were all handsome We could all sing We all had the heart Of the prettiest girl in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to have the bat in the big moments. If I fail or if I don't, I want to be the… — Juan Soto Copy Share Image
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it;… — Yogi Berra Copy Share Image
No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be… — Ron Luciano Copy Share Image
“[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do,… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
You start looking at some of the names that have gotten 10 straight Opening Day starts, and it's pretty crazy to see… — Brandon Crawford Copy Share Image
When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
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