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
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).
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.
All I want to do is play baseball and make a better life for my kid than I had, that's it," Bradley said to a quiet clubhouse. "I love all you guys. ... I'm strong, but I'm not that strong.
milton bradley— Richard Durrett (June 12, 2008). "Texas Rangers' Bradley gets emotional over TV comments". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved on 2009-01-04.
To see his boxscore lines ... is to have no idea that the Indians center fielder might very well be the angriest player in baseball.
milton bradley— Alan Schwarz (July 10, 2003). "Bradley knows only one way — the hard way". ESPN. Retrieved on 2009-01-04.
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 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 opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still don't. What we did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism ---and by doing what we did in Iraq, we've managed to alienate a good part of the world and most of the allies whose intelligence and other help we need to combat and defeat terrorism.
jerry springer— Democratic Veteran, interview with Jo Fish 06/23/03
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)
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
walt whitman— American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
lou gehrig— American baseball player who played his entire professional career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees (1903 - 1941)
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)
I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.
Billy Martin— American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager (1928 - 1989)
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)
The more you play baseball, the less depends on your athletic ability. It's a mental war more than anything.
Alex Rodriguez— Dominican-American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman
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
baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.
branch rickey— In 1954.
