Baseball Quotes
1871 quotes by 890 authors
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I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces
— Jackie Robinson
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I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).
— Gil Hodges
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If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.
— Bill Veeck
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A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.
— Pete Rose
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Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
— Ferguson Jenkins
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Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.
— Branch Rickey
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Pitch within yourself.
— Tom Seaver
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Most one-run games are lost, not won.
— Gene Mauch
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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't…
— Edd Roush
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I have always been a firm believer that the game has never belonged to the owners. It has never belonged to the ballplayers. It belongs…
— Johnny Vander Meer
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Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.
— Susan Sarandon
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Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.
— Charlie Gehringer
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The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.
— Curt Flood
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He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.
— Sandy Koufax
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As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
— Bill Vaughan
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A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.
— Ken Singleton
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Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and…
— Steve Garvey
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If you don't succeed at first, try pitching.
— Jack Harshman
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He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.
— George Brett
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