Baseball Quotes and Sayings

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I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit
to keep playing basball

~ Peter Rose

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There's three things you can do in a baseball game -
you can win, you can lose, or it can rain

~ Charles Stengel

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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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I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out.

~ George Foster

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Why does everybody stand up and
sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"
when they're already there?

~ Larry Anderson

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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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There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

~ Charlie Lau

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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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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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I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

~ Tom Clark

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There's no skill involved, just go up there
and swing at the ball

~ Joe DiMaggio

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A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.

~ Humphrey Bogart

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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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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

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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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When I was a little boy,
I wanted to be a baseball player and join the circus.
With the Yankees I've accomplished both.

~ Graig Nettles

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Good pitching will beat good hitting any time,
and vice versa.

~ Bob Veale

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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

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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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Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.

~ Jim Murray, on Sandy Koufax

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A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.

~ Klinger (M*A*S*H)

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The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.

~ Bob Uecker

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Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini.
They show a lot, but not everything.

~ Toby Harrah

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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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Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business,
and too much of a business to be called a sport.

~ Philip Wrigley

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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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Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

~ Warren Spahn

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Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

~ Woodie Held

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Baseball, it is said, is only a game.
True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

~ George F. Will

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