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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 is a man on base.
- Dave Barry
We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalised for too many players on the field
All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived."
A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, You gotta be ready to hit the curve.
If a man can beat you, walk him.
Hitting is 50% above the shoulders.
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be in baseball and in life.
I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.
I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all this. Writers, tape recorders, microphones, cameras, questions and more questions. Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one. I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.
Mickey meant an awful lot to me. He was a tremendous athlete. People didn't understand him the way they should have. He played 10 years on one leg. But more than that, he was a tremendous person.
Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.
I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
He's been very talkative. But it is usually under oath.
Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?
It can be life or death in the fire service and it definitely felt like life and death on the ballfield.
I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever
Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close horde of immigrants stuffed into steerage on some endless voyage toward better luck-not an inappropriate image if we remind ourselves that this famous rustbucket, the good ship Cubbie, last dropped anchor in the shining harbor of the World Series in 1945 .
This is a linear sport. Something happens and then something else happens, and then the next man comes up and digs in at the plate. Here's the pitch, and here, after a pause, is the next. There's time to write it down in your scorecard or notebook, and then perhaps to look about and reflect on what's starting to happen out there now. It's not much like the swirl and blur of hockey and basketball, or the highway crashes of the NFL.
Baseball is the writer's game, and its train of thought, we come to sense, is a shuttle, carrying us constantly forward to the next pitch or inning, or the sudden double into the left-field corner, but we keep hold of the other half of our ticket, for the return trip on the same line. We anticipate happily, and, coming home, reenter an old landscape brightened with fresh colors. Baseball games and plays and mannerisms-the angle of a cap-fade stubbornly and come to mind unbidden, putting us back in some particular park on that special October afternoon or June evening. The players are as young as ever, and we, perhaps not entirely old.
Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
When we played softball, I'd steal 2nd base, feel guilty and go back.
I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.
He's such a big, strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone.
That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.
There's one word that describes baseball
'You never know.'
He's like an amusement-park ride Even for guys who play.
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." Red Barber, announcer
"I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they forgot to bring the scorebook to the game that day."
"That's the nicest thing a returning player could ever ask for. It shows how classy the New York Fans are. It gave me a warm feeling inside."
"This is nothing. I've got nine writers standing here. McGwire had 200 writers when he had 30 home runs."
"A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else."
"The older they get, the better they were when they were younger."
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?"
A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
"If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect three thousand hits and one thousand errors."
"Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings."
"Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time."
"No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby."
"In high school I took a little English, some science, some hubcaps and some wheel covers."
When asked if his curve was helped by the absence of an index finger, Mordecai Brown replied, "To know for sure, I'd have to throw with a normal hand, and I've never tried it."
So far I've lost five pounds and my driver's license."
"The players are too serious. They don't have any fun any more. They come to camp with a financial adviser and they read the stock market page before the sports pages. They concern themselves with statistics rather than simply playing the game and enjoying it for what it is."
"It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four years
It took me that long to learn how to spell it."
"Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment."
"You know when you've got it made? When you get your name in the crossword puzzles."
"I prefer fast food."
"No little boy in the hospital asked me to hit one, I didn't promise it to my kid for his birthday, and my wife will be too shocked to appreciate it. I hit it for me."
"The more I played with them, the more I found that no one could take a joke - my batting average."
"Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment."
"The trouble with having a wired jaw is that you can never tell when you're sleepy. You can't yawn."
On Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe: "He was definitely the player to be named later."
"Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes."
"Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports."
"Expansion's coming up (in 1998), pitching is thin and I'm left-handed."
"I was hoping we'd be opening at Joe Robbie Stadium against Elmer Milktoast and the Gigiville nine. But unfortunately, it's Bobby Cox and the world champion Atlanta Braves in Atlanta."
"This is the type of thing that as a kid you dream about. Something I've done in my backyard a hundred times. And you never know if you're going to get the opportunity to do it."
"There were only two Bash Brothers (Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco), and one's in Boston now. Maybe I can be a Bash Stepchild."
"It's hard to win when you can't keep the ball in the ballpark. I don't think they could hit more home runs if you told them what was coming. I don't think they could hit any more if it was batting practice."
"The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy."
"For five years in the minor leagues, I wore the same underwear and still hit .250, so no, I don't believe in that stuff."
"I'm tired of it. I don't want to hear about it anymore."
"I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play."
"How can a guy win a game if you don't give him any runs?"
"Everybody in the park knows he is going to run, and he makes it anyway."
"He seemed to have an oblig the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone."
"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 Famer
Hello again, everybody. It's a bee-yooo-tiful day for baseball.
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, 1976
"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."
"Baseball to me is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people."
"You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you."
"Baseball reflected the language of America, and spiced it, too. Presidents, politicians, executives, generals and parents touched all the bases regularly so that nobody would be out in left field or caught off the base in the greater pursuits of life. If you did it right, you hit a grand slam home run; if not you struck out."
"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."
"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."
"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball."
"When you're in a slump, It's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove." "The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, Yankees outfielder
"Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things."
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