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BASEBALL QUOTES
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"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the 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." ~Bart Giamatti - former Baseball Commissioner
"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, former weak hitting Major Leaguer
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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 the ball.
~Bill Veeck, former Team Owner
You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
~Joe DiMaggio, on Opening Day
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"Solo homers usually come with no one on base."
~ Ralph Kiner (Hall of Famer Outfielder and Home Run Hitter)
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"Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction."~Robert Frost, Poet
"The game is played on dirt and grass, but if the ball gets dirty, it is replaced with a new clean ball." ~Unknown
"If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything."
~Chris Chambliss, former NY Yankee
"Hitting is a strange thing. You're so smart talking about hitting, and then you step into the batter's box, and something happens to you. You get stupid. It's like everything goes out the window. You step into the batter's box, and immediately you turn into a third-grader."~Batting Champion, George Brett
"Baseball is a simple game. You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball." ~Manager Joe "Skip" Riggins, from the movie Bull Durham
"Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world."~Babe Ruth
"I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be."~Roger Angell, Baseball Author
"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 won't be worth a dime"
~Babe Ruth
"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 (Hall of Fame 2B)
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field."
~Jim Bouton (former NY Yankee pitcher and author)
"A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz."
~Humphrey Bogart (legendary movie star)
"A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball."~Christy Mathewson, Hall of Fame Pitcher
"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want somebody else to go chase it."~~Rogers Hornsby, Hall of Fame 2nd Baseman - Great Baseball Hitter and not so Good Golfer
"The first big league game I ever saw was at the Polo Grounds. My father took me, I remember it so well, the green grass and green stands. it was like seeing Oz."
~John Curtis, former Major League Pitcher
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