Baseball Quotes

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When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out,… — Langston Hughes
Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and… — Russell Baker
I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes! — Bill James
I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as… — Juliana Hatfield
If I was traded to the Giants, I'd quit baseball — Rocky Colavito
It is an old baseball joke that big-inning baseball is affirmed in the Bible, in Genesis. "In the big inning, God created... — George Will
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them? -Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, to baseball commissioner Bud… — Yogi Berra
Swing at the strikes. — Yogi Berra
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy. — Ernie Harwell
There is no defense against a base on balls. — Joe Garagiola
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color?… — Joe Garagiola
I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket… — Bob Uecker
I've always been a great lover of baseball. — Peter Lynch
Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside. — Jimmy Connors
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start… — George Brett
I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story. — George Brett
Baseball is the life. — Steve Garvey

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