Baseball Quotes
1871 quotes by 890 authors
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If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember,…
— Daniel Okrent
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What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and…
— Dan Shaughnessy
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What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.
— Babe Ruth
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A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets…
— Jim Lefebvre
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Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate…
— Michael Lewis
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Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and…
— David Halberstam
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
— Maggie Lawson
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Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a…
— Jamie Moyer
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Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too
— Tommy Lasorda
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To be a star and stay a star, I think you've got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a cockiness, a swagger…
— Joe Morgan
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Fast pitch softball is just as dangerous as baseball. The ball is bigger so you can see it better, but the size also makes for…
— Sara Gilbert
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Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.
— Judy Johnson
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Other than hitting the ball...there's nothing else I have ever done or know how to do. How to live on the outside, how to earn…
— Kim Young-kwang
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Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
— Frank Robinson
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You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.
— Dusty Baker
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Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest of the day.…
— Misty May-Treanor
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I keep my eys clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.
— Willie Keeler
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Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
— Johnny Bench
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I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off…
— Hank Aaron
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
— Casey Stengel
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