Baseball Quote by Roger Kahn Download Open image “I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.” — Roger Kahn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baseball Becoming Lying Sports Symptoms
I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. — Jose Canseco Copy Share Image
People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe's record, was playing… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
I saw my baseball career skyrocketing, but there was always something in the back of my head that was missing. That was trying to… — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff. — Balthazar Getty Copy Share Image
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player. — Nolan Ryan Copy Share Image
“Worse, Roger erupted into outbursts of uncontrollable rage, without apparent cause. In time I learned that this was one symptom of what therapists formerly… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
“Dear Dad: After twenty-two years in the amusement park, this roller coaster isn’t fun any more, so I’m getting off the ride. Roger” — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
“Poor kid, I thought, to do this to yourself at twenty-three and leave a note that tells me you could have been a writer.… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to… — Gaylord Perry Copy Share Image
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs. — Sammy Sosa Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again. — Ernie Banks Copy Share Image
Pitchers pitch differently. Hitters, hardly anyone has the same stance. That's just how it is. — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some… — Mookie Betts Copy Share Image
I don't want the electronic strike zone. I like the element of sometimes pitches don't get called. Guys don't receive it well or whatever… — Kyle Schwarber Copy Share Image
I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH to the National League. — George Brett Copy Share Image
In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just… — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy… — Harry Caray Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image