Baseball Quotes - Page 95

Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.

My job is baseball. That's it. After, I'll talk to my country. I'm happy to do that.

May the sun never set on American baseball.

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

[ Chadwick Boseman] was not a baseball player. He spent, I don't know, countless hours, many months, working two sessions a day with professional pro coaches to develop the baseball skills that he needed.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.

He's like a baseball team owner who also wants to coach, but who also attracts fans, like David Duke, and now anti-semi Louis Farrakhan who also gave Donald Trump odd praise. Now maybe this is not Trump's fault, but he is truly a unifier getting white and black racist leaders to agree on one thing - him. Not to mention the democrats.

Miami awarded me with the teams Pitcher of the year as well as Rookie of the year. My career at Miami only got better from there, I went on the Cape Cod baseball league for 2 consecutive summers where I did well and also to help lead our Miami team to both MAC regular season and tournament champions in 2005. I finished my career at Miami holding a few conference records including career innings pitched and by getting drafted by the Florida Marlins in the 10th round.

I made the Dixie Heights High School baseball team as an 8th grader and went on to have a very successful career. I was all state both my junior and senior years leading our team 3 district championships and 1 regional championship in 2001 which hadn't happened since 1991. My number has since been retired at Dixie Heights and a banner hangs from the outfield fence with my name and number on it.

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues.