Baseball Quotes
1871 quotes by 890 authors
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You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
— Hank Aaron
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If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
— George Carlin
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Nice guys finish last.
— Leo Durocher
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A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
— Early Wynn
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Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
— Earl Weaver
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You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.
— Rocky Colavito
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The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any…
— Charles Kuralt
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Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.
— Tug McGraw
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Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.
— Roger Clemens
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One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.
— Jim Abbott
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Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's…
— Roger Angell
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Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
— Red Barber
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You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
— Roy Campanella
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Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.
— Norm Cash
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When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.
— Rod Carew
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They usually show movies on a flight like that.
— Ken Coleman
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The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
— Don Drysdale
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Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
— Charlie Finley
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A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
— Ray Fitzgerald
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When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.
— Bob Gibson
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