Baseball Quote by Tris Speaker Download Open image “The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.” — Tris Speaker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare American Boy Baseball Bat Soon Bats Boy Starts Boys Starts Swinging Swinging Bat
Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. — George Herman Copy Share Image
I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and… — J. J. Hardy Copy Share Image
I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
I've done it before where I get guys banging their bat on the ground after their second or third at-bat because you just have… — Pat Connaughton Copy Share Image
I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
It makes no difference to me what kind of bat I have. For instance, I often grab the first bat I come across when… — Joe Kelley Copy Share Image
You take a couple of days off, and your swing is going to be off. I think it takes 15, 20 at-bats to really… — Cody Bellinger Copy Share Image
When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So,… — Mohammad Azharuddin Copy Share Image
Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard. — Tris Speaker Copy Share Image
The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy. — Tris Speaker Copy Share Image
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others. — Tris Speaker Copy Share Image
When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance… — Tris Speaker Copy Share Image
It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting. — Tris Speaker 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
