Baseball Quotes

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Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the… — Gene Mauch
I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage. — Lefty Gomez
There is but one game and that game is baseball. — John McGraw
Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning. — Ronald Reagan
When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of… — Darin Erstad
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched… — Robert Frost
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. — Albert Einstein
It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball. — Tommy Lasorda
God, I just love baseball. — Robert Redford
Everybody makes mistakes. You have to be careful when you make your mistakes. Now is not a good time to make a mistake. — Nick Markakis
We're playing for our lives now. — Bob Melvin
Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson. — Willie Mays
I'm not sure what the hell charisma is, but I get the feeling it's Willie Mays. — Ted Kluszewski
Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed. — Ty Cobb
I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor… — Ernest Hemingway
Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork. — Willie Stargell
Aw, how could he Jorge Orta lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico. — Harry Caray
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal. — Branch Rickey
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. — Babe Ruth
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again. — Roger Maris

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