Baseball Quotes - Page 37

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they'd ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that even those used to seeing people in dire circumstances were moved by his example.

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.

You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.

People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them that Jesus Christ is my strength. God has blessed me and I will continue to do my best for him. That is more important than anything I could ever do in baseball.

Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine

It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't.

I'd say he's done more than that.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light.

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

If you don't play to win, why keep score?