Baseball Quotes

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Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is… — Ernie Harwell
Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This… — Ernie Harwell
Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta,… — Ernie Harwell
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his… — Ernie Harwell
If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game. — Rickey Henderson
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait… — Rogers Hornsby
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. — Rogers Hornsby
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist. — Rogers Hornsby
I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S. — Khaled Hosseini
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. — Bo Jackson
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom… — Bo Jackson
In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there. — Bo Jackson
Fans don't boo nobodies. — Reggie Jackson
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play. — Reggie Jackson
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. — Reggie Jackson
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. — Reggie Jackson
As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball… — Kevin James
If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose. — Derek Jeter
The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold. — Derek Jeter
A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with… — Penn Jillette

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