Best American Baseball Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.”

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Book:Ted Williams' Hit List

Source: Ted Williams' Hit List

“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.”

“I try to walk around with a smile on my face.”

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Author:Johnny Damon

“I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.”

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Author:Hideki Matsui

“There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.”

“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”

“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”

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Author:Yogi Berra

“You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.”

“The future ain't what it used to be.”

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Book:What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

Source: What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

“I never said most of the things I said.”

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Author:Yogi Berra

“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

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

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Author:Yogi Berra

“He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.”

“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”

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Author:Walt Whitman

“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”

“More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.”

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Author:Thomas Boswell

“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.”

“A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.”

“If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.”

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Author:Tom Seaver

“Baseball is dull only to dull minds.”

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Author:Red Barber

“I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.”

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Author:Jeremy London

“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.”

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Author:Steve Busby

“I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.”

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Author:Alan Greenspan

“I stare out the window and wait for spring.”

“The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.”

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Author:Michael Lewis

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”

“The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.”

“The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

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