Baseball Quotes
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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
I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. […] I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.
stephen jay gould— "Seventh Inning Stretch: Baseball, Father, and Me", p. 29
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)
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.
ted williams— American professional baseball player and manager (1918 - 2002)
baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. It combines the best features of that primitive form of cricket known asTip-and-Run with those of lawn tennis, Puss-in-the-corner and Handel's Messiah.
George Bernard Shaw— Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
jacques barzun— Quoted in Michael Novak The Joy of Sport (1976), pt1.
The tradition of baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is 'Do anything you can get away with'.
— Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody isgoing to voteTory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
Ben Elton— 1998 In The Radio Times,18 Apr.
It's the wild, wild West of baseball, and it just keeps getting wilder.
joe kehoskie— Discussing the business of Cuban baseball defectors, from the Boston Globe article "Hardball" by Steve Fainaru and Shira Springer (28 May 2000)
Fidel Castro essentially forced these guys to leave Cuba. It wasn't really even a choice. It was either stay at home, be handed a broom and told 'have a nice life' or they could leave Cuba and continue playing baseball.
joe kehoskie— On Cuban baseball defectors, from the PBS documentary Stealing Home (18 June 2001)
There's at least half a billion dollars [worth] of baseball players in Cuba right now and probably a lot more.
joe kehoskie— On the amount of baseball talent in Cuba, from the Vanity Fair article "Commie Ball: A Journey to the End of a Revolution" by Michael Lewis (July 2008)
"I was in the streets marching for civil rights while asshole southern sheriffs were swinging nail studded baseball bats at blacks' heads. Two things you can always count on: I will defend my record on race to no one (sic), under any circumstances and, I will call out any racist, any time without regard to who they are . . . and that includes our half white, racist President."
mark williams—
It's time for Dodger baseball!
vin scully— His iconic opening quote
If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
eliezer yudkowsky— How to Seem (and Be) Deep (October 2007)
In baseball, you don’t know nothing.
yogi berra— American professional baseball catcher, manager, and coach (1925 - 2015)
Life is inherently ambiguous; baseball games pit pure good against abject evil. Even Saddam Hussein must have committed one act of kindness in his life, but what iota of good could possibly be said for aluminum bats or the designated hitter rule?
— Stephen Jay Gould, in "Baseball and the Two Faces of Janus", p. 272; originally published as "The Virtues of Nakedness" in The New York Review of Books (11 October 1990)
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)
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
casey stengel— American Major League Baseball right fielder and manager (1890 - 1975)
The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
hank aaron— American Major League Baseball right fielder
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Nolan Ryan— American former Major League Baseball pitcher and a previous chief executive officer of the Texas Rangers
baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
tommy lasorda— American Major League Baseball pitcher, best known for his two decades as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
branch rickey— American sports executive (1881 - 1965)
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Jaques Barzan— God's Country and Mine (1954)
baseball is a Lockean game, a kind of contract theory in ritual form, a set of atomic individuals who assent to patterns of limited co-operation in their mutual interest.
— 1976 The Joys of Sport, pt.1.
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.
— Part I, Chapter 5, Mechanistic Modelling, p. 108
baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw— Attributed in Colin Jarman, The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
