Baseball Quotes
Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.
When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.
Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.
I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.
That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.
I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.
When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'
To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.
In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.
It's baseball. You've got to be the same guy every day, no matter if you go 4-for-4 or 0-for-4.
I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off the field and some of the things I stood for.
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.
I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.
Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum.
I didn't run from the situation. I didn't hide the ordeal from the reporters like the sissy baseball players. I fought it head-on... We dealt with it. It's over. And now we're moving on.
Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.
To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.
Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.
I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.
Winning isn't as important as doing well individually. You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate.
I feel like when I arrive at the hospital I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back. And, I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat...
