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Baseball Quotes
"There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened."--Tommy Lasorda
"Baseball is 90% mental--the other half is physical."--Yogi Berra
"Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success." --Sparky Anderson
"I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer."--Tommy Lasorda
"Let's play two"--Ernie Banks
"The two most important things in life: good friends and a strong bullpen."--Bob Gibson
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy."--Nolan Ryan
"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
"I just swing hard in case I hit it -- that's it." --David Ortiz
"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out."--George Brett
"I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." --Babe Ruth
"It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first."--Jackie Robinson
"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
"When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit."--Shoeless Joe Jackson
"I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly."--Ty Cobb
"Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades." --Frank Robinson
"I took the two most expensive aspirins in history." - Wally Pipp after Gehrig replaced him in lineup and starting the "Streak" of 2130 straight games played.
"I was one of the guys that did all they could to win." - Joe Morgan
"You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too." ~Roy Campanella
"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." ~Rogers Hornsby
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
"This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings." ~Bill Veeck
"I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it." ~Sandy Koufax
"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing." ~Warren Spahn
"There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work." ~Charlie Lau, 1982
"The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up." ~Bob Uecker
"It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted." ~Bill Veeck
"I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery." ~Ty Cobb
"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
"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first." ~Frederick B. Wilcox
“The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.”--Gaylord Perry
"Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand."--Wes Westrum
"For the parent of a little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into innings."- Earl Wilson
"I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesite...yes." - Leo "The Lip" Durocher
"Nice guys finish last." - Leo Durocher, former manager
"I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give." - Roberto Clemente
"If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything." - Chris Chambliss
"A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure." - Whitey Herzog, St. Louis Cardinals manager
"When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did - but it was Mrs. Koufax's." - Tommy John (NY Yankees pitcher), on his arm surgery - now known as the "Tommy John" procedure
"Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbers go for base hits. It's an unfair game." - Ron Kanehl
"When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove." - Vance Law
"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal". -George Will
"Show me a guy whos afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time".-Lou Brock
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club wont be worth a dime."-Babe Ruth
"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success".-Charlie Finley
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging".-Hank Aaron
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a mans determination".-Tommy Lasorda
"It ain't over til it's over".-Yogi Berra
"It ain't over til the fat lady sings".-Yogi Berra
“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
“There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.”-Casey Stengel
“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
"There are a lot more important things in life than baseball. I just haven't found out what they are yet"-Marty Schupak
"You can't think and hit at the same time." - Yogi Berra
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