To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback. — Steve Hovley Copy Share Image
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE. — Satchel Paige Copy Share Image
The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games. — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz Copy Share Image
Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres. — James Siegel Copy Share Image
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." — Willie Stargell Copy Share Image
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when… — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times.… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
When you're 18, when you're at college, sports can be your life. You can watch every baseball game, every college basketball game,… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately,… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around… — George Brett Copy Share Image
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way.… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell… — Leo Durocher Copy Share Image
Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
I love baseball games. I got to go to World Series last year. I watch almost every Cubs game. If I can't… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe… — Ron White Copy Share Image
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest… — Misty May-Treanor Copy Share Image
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors.… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the… — Don Drysdale Copy Share Image
If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people. — Mackenzie Astin Copy Share Image
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . . — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. — Yogi Berra Copy Share Image
Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game. — Joe Buck Copy Share Image
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. — Ray Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. — Duke Snider Copy Share Image
Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
