Baseball Quotes
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"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
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-Tommy Lasorda
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"I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another."
-Bill Lee
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-Bill Lee
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"The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it."
-Ty Cobb
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-Ty Cobb
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"If I hear Bowie Kuhn say just once more he's doing something for the betterment of baseball, I'm going to throw-up."
-Sparky Anderson
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-Sparky Anderson
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"Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times."
-Bob Uecker
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-Bob Uecker
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"Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead."
-Jackie Robinson
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-Jackie Robinson
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"Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!"
-Ted Williams
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-Ted Williams
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"I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability."
-Carl Yastrzemski
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-Carl Yastrzemski
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"There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way."
-Alvin Dark
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-Alvin Dark
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"Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile."
-Christy Mathewson
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-Christy Mathewson
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"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
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-Ted Williams
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"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
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-Nolan Ryan
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"I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else."
-Bill Terry
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-Bill Terry
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"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams."
-Jacques Barzun
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-Jacques Barzun
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"That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards."
-Bill Lee
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-Bill Lee
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"It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word."
-Brooks Robinson
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-Brooks Robinson
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"There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain."
-Casey Stengel
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-Casey Stengel
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"I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either."
-Bob Feller
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-Bob Feller
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"The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player."
-Bernie Lincicome
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-Bernie Lincicome
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"I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world."
-Bill Lee
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-Bill Lee
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"It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball."
-Don Drysdale
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-Don Drysdale
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"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
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-Bill Veeck
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"I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year."
-Mark Mcgwire
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-Mark Mcgwire
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"Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way."
-Al Spalding
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-Al Spalding
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