Baseball Quotes
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Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
babe ruth— As quoted in Baseball as I Have Known It (1996) by Fred Lieb, p. 154
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
walt whitman— American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
ted williams— American baseball player and manager (1918 - 2002)
I just told him to run the bases and don't try to be cocky. He's an emotional guy, but I don't believe what went on the field tonight outside of baseball deserves any words.
carlos zambrano— Scott Rolen
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
Bob Feller— American baseball pitcher (1918 - 2010)
baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
babe ruth— American baseball player (1895 - 1948)
baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.
juliana hatfield— American singer-songwriter
What was incredible about Clemente was not only how skilled he was at each part of the game, but this kind of ferocity that he played with on each play of the game — even in years when they were pitiful and they had no chance to get into the pennant or anything like that. He would throw it in, he would pick guys off who got a single who took too much of a turn going around first; there was just something intense about this guy that was not necessarily what was going on in baseball at that moment.
roberto clemente— John Sayles in Ken Burns' documentary Baseball (1994); YouTube video
There's three things you can do in a baseball game: you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.
casey stengel— Quoted in The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations, by Colin Jarman (1990).
There was the abortion brief and also the brief in the Wygant case. I had a big hand in writing it, and so did Sam Alito, who had this marvelous phrase saying that a particular African American baseball player would not have served as a great role model if the fences had been pulled in every time he was up at bat, a point which some people were greatly offended by because they thought it to be pamphleteering. I thought it was entirely appropriate.
samuel alito— Charles Fried (Solicitor General 1985 to 1989) in 2003.
Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair— Quoted without citation by Nathaniel J. Ehrlich, Psychology and contemporary affairs, p. 78 (1972).
It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball.
jose peralta— Couch, Ben. "Mets set for Merengue Night honor - GM Minaya accepts state citation for club's outreach efforts". MLB.com (MLB Advanced Media, L.P.). Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.
albert pujols— When asked about how he learned to play baseball.[5]
If a tree falls in the woods and no one’s around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that’s played with no one around to watch it, though that’s a different proposition.
carson cistulli— Hell Isn’t (Necessarily) Other People (2010)
I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?
roger ebert— Review of Angels in the Outfield (15 July 1994)
The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.)
stephen jay gould— "The Creation Myths of Cooperstown", p. 46
Cause when you leave New York Man, you don't go anywhere It's a city where a man Can fulfill his dreams The only town that's left That's got three baseball teams (That's why New York's his home) Let me never leave it New York's my home, sweet home
— Sammy Davis, Jr., New York's My Home (1956)
Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
— Sick Boy, "Blowing It: Deid Dugs" (Chapter 4, Story 3)
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
tommy lasorda— American Major League Baseball pitcher, best known for his two decades as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers
When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
Joe DiMaggio— American baseball center fielder (1914 - 1999)
These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
Jimmy Buffett— American musician, songwriter, author, actor, and businessman
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
branch rickey— American sports executive (1881 - 1965)
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Earl Wilson— American journalist, gossip columnist, and author (1907 - 1987)
baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Bill Veeck— American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - 1986)
Ty Cobb liked sentimentality in his opponents, because he had none himself. baseball, he said, is something like a war.
ty cobb— Ken Burns, describing Cobb's style, in the second inning (Something Like A War) of Baseball (1994)
In many if not most cases, Cuban players haven’t been busts so much as they’ve been systematically over-hyped during the signing process, which led to unrealistic expectations around Major League baseball and in the media. The vast majority of Cuba’s truly elite players have either stayed in Cuba for their entire careers or left Cuba too late to have a meaningful MLB career.
joe kehoskie— On the success rate and perception of Cuban baseball defectors in MLB, from the Miami Herald article "Yoenis Cespedes may be the great unknown for Miami Marlins" by Clark Spencer (12 February 2012)
baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.
paul ormerod— Part I, Chapter 5, Mechanistic Modelling, p. 108
