Baseball Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Bob Lemon,
Jim Murray,
Bill Veeck
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| If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it. |
| - Dick Allen |
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| When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Confucious say: "Baseball wrong - man with four balls cannot walk." |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. |
| - Tallulah Bankhead |
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| If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. |
| - Dave Barry |
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| England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. |
| - Robert Benchley |
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| One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. |
| - Robert Benchley |
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| It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays. |
| - Yogi Berra |
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| A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. |
| - Humphrey Bogart |
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| Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick. |
| - Thomas Boswell |
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| More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. |
| - Thomas Boswell |
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| You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. |
| - Jim Bouton |
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| Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? |
| - Jim Bouton |
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| A knuckleball is a curve ball that doesn't give a damn. |
| - Jimmy Cannon |
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| In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. |
| - Neville Cardus |
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| There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. |
| - Neville Cardus |
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| Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. |
| - George Carlin |
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| Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. |
| - Bruce Catton |
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| A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more. |
| - Arthur Daley |
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| The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid. |
| - Don Drysdale |
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| What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third. |
| - Leo Durocher |
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| You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. |
| - Leo Durocher |
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| Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. |
| - John Fowles |
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| A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves. |
| - Brendan Francis |
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| Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. |
| - Robert Frost |
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| No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. |
| - Paul Gallico |
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| Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. |
| - Joe Garagiola |
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| Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. |
| - Joe Garagiola |
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| It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. |
| - A Bartlett Giamatti |
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| Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot. |
| - Dick Gregory |
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| Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. |
| - Ken Harrelson |
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| Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. |
| - Ernie Harwell |
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| Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion. |
| - Ernie Harwell |
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| I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. |
| - Rogers Hornsby |
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| People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. |
| - Rogers Hornsby |
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| Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. |
| - Roger Kahn |
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| Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. |
| - Bob Lemon |
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| I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all. |
| - Bob Lemon |
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| I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen. |
| - Bob Lemon |
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| Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. |
| - John Leonard |
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| Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. |
| - Jim Murray |
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| Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound. |
| - Jim Murray |
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| The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash. |
| - Jim Murray |
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| A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin. |
| - Branch Rickey |
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| Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax. |
| - Mike Royko |
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| It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards. |
| - Mike Royko |
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| What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. |
| - Red Smith |
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| Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. |
| - Casey Stengel |
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| I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice. |
| - Casey Stengel |
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| It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one. |
| - Chuck Tanner |
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| The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. |
| - Chuck Tanner |
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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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| Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. |
| - Bill Veeck |
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| I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. |
| - Bill Veeck |
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| It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted. |
| - Bill Veeck |
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| That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. |
| - Bill Veeck |
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| The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. |
| - Bill Veeck |
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| This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. |
| - Bill Veeck |
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| What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober. |
| - Bill Veeck |
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| I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. |
| - Walt Whitman |
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| Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. |
| - George Will |
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| They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans. |
| - George Will |
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| A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. |
| - Earl Wilson |
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