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“When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.”

Feels Player Baseball Pitcher You Re The Best

Author:Johan Santana

“I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.”

Knows Next Baseball Strikes Uniforms Next Time

Author:Dave Winfield

“But wherever I was I played baseball. That's all I lived for. When I sat up on the front seat of that covered wagon next to my father, I was wearing a baseball glove. That showed anybody who was interested where I wanted to go.”

Wanted Next Father Fronts Baseball Sat Seats Covered Gloves Wagons

Author:Smoky Joe Wood

“Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.”

Way Interest Baseball Salary

Author:Albert Goodwill Spalding

“I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.”

Want Half Baseball Gloves

Author:Bernie Williams

“Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?”

People Baseball Take Me Baseball Player Baseball Games Funny Baseball Ballgame

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“He (Buck Showaleter) never even smelled a jock in the big leagues. Mr. Baseball never even got a hit in Triple-A. I was a better player than him, I have more money than him and I'm better looking than him.”

Bigs Player Baseball League More Money Bucks Jocks

Author:Ozzie Guillen

“Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.”

Stills Done Happens Kids House Rooms Boys Four Baseball Things Happen Afternoon Inches Adolescence Bats Living Room Spooky Baffled

Author:Mary Blakely

“We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.”

“Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.”

Opportunity Existence Baseball Day To Day Ups & Downs

Author:Ernie Harwell

“In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.”

Book Matter Race Democracy Team Color Baseball Shining Bags Creeds Uniforms Inspirational Team

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.”

Sometimes Spirit Sports Simple Baseball Balls Complexes Bats American Spirit

Author:Ernie Harwell

“A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.”

Men Baseball Corners Tall Old Man

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.”

Dream Baseball Bigger Fulfillment Throat Lumps Rookies Lump In The Throat

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.”

Firsts President Dad Baseball Seasons Balls Farms Mississippi

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.”

Men Years Remember Years Ago Baseball Mobile Pittsburgh Wagner

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.”

Men Games Race Failing Skills Baseball Heroic Inches Spirited Reflexes

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!”

Way Stills Kids America Games Lord Growing Up Growing Baseball Praise Tongue Tied Georgia Announcers Tongue Tied Praise The Lord

Book:Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball

Source: Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball

“Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).”

World Doe Said Baseball Series World Series

Author:Roberto Clemente

“Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.”

People Firsts Has Beens Jobs Baseball Atlanta Broadcasting

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors.”

Years Has Beens Home Running Games Numbers Records Majors Baseball Twenties Average Flying Winner Dramatic Soar Pitching Home Run Disappearance Ballparks Dramatic Change

Author:Frank Robinson

“Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’”

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Author:Ernie Harwell

“It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.”

Culture Left Sports Baseball Ancient Accidents Monument Ancient Times Ballparks Colosseum

Author:Red Smith

“Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, football?... It's politics. That's right, politics. Millions and millions of people following it every day in the newspapers, over the TV and the radio. Now mind you, they wouldn't get mixed up in this themselves for all the tea in China, but they know the names and numbers of all the players. And what they can't tell the coaches about strategy. Oh, you should see some of the letters I get.”

People Knows Should Mind Country Today Politics Names Sports Numbers Millions Player Football Tvs Basketball Letters Baseball Strategy Radio Following China Coaches Newspapers Tea Spectators

Author:Frank Nugent

“It enrages me to see only certain players singled out for the Hall of Fame because they were born with a God-given specialty. When I take my kids to the Baseball Hall of Fame, I want them to experience the full array of talents that make the game what it is today, not just the larger-than-life freaks of nature. I want them to know that you don't have to be the biggest or the strongest to reach your goals, and that hard work and perseverance are also rewarded.”

“I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.”

Way Looks Stills Whole Gone Alive Heard Fame Garden Baseball Rose My Way Thrown Halls Bud Hall Of Fame Fellas Rose Garden Rose Buds Baseball Hall Of Fame

Author:Home Run Baker

“I mean, people think I'm too intense for baseball. I've always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it's like people think something is wrong with that.”

People Thinking Mean Matter Baseball No Matter What Intense Being The Best Mean People

Author:Albert Belle

“I'm not going to get a hit every time in clutch situations, but over the course of the season I'll get a lot of clutch hits. I'm disappointed it's come to a time when they (Orioles fans) boo me. And then to turn around and have the nerve to cheer for you, that's the way baseball goes.”

Way Turns Courses Situation Fans Baseball Seasons Nerves Disappointed Cheer Clutch

Author:Albert Belle

“In baseball, I don't fraternize with players when it's time to hit. I'm preparing for the game. It's the most important time of the day. And I know if I don't hit, I won't have a job in the big leagues. That's why I tend to get very upset when people try to talk to me.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Important Bigs Jobs Games Player Baseball League Upset Preparing Talk To Me

Author:Albert Belle

“In the past I've tended to overreact. I was sure I'd be a superstar by the time I was twenty-one. Baseball messed up my plan of life. When I fail I get upset. Sometimes I get upset too quickly, without thinking of consequences.”

Thinking Sometimes Past Plans Failing Consequence Baseball Twenties Upset Twenty One Superstar Messed Up

Author:Albert Belle

“It's an individual sport (golf), so it's the exact opposite of baseball. If you hit a bad shot, you can't say, 'Well, this happened.' It's just you. It's your shot. You can't point the finger at anybody but yourself.”

Ifs Wells Individual Sports Happened Shots Opposites Baseball Golf Fingers

Author:Albert Belle

“(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.”

Powerful Practice Style Baseball Determined Speed Believer Managers Unexpected Als Foe Hustle

Author:Nellie Fox

“We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.”

Littles Fields Habit Dad Baseball Balls My Dad Tobacco Chewing Chewing Tobacco

Author:Nellie Fox

“What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio.”

Fine Baseball Fortunate Requirements Shortstops

Author:Nellie Fox

“He's (Jack McKeon) been around baseball for twenty-plus years. He knows what it takes to be a manager. I hope he gets the chance.”

Knows Years Chance Baseball Twenties Managers Plus

Author:Ken Griffey, Jr.

“Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.”

Should Shows Games Politics Serious Baseball Democratic Treated Opera Soap Democratic Society Baseball Games Soap Operas Game Shows

Book:Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in

Source: Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in

“Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.”

Baseball Clean

Author:Hank Aaron

“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.”

“Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.”

Home Running Success Wish Careers Broken Baseball Meant To Be Congratulations Alex Home Run Milestone Continued Success

Author:Willie Mays

“He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Stills I Can Play Lines Approach Baseball Balls Harder Average Tricks Delivery Phenomenal Batting Whistling

Author:Ty Cobb

“When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.”

Play Fun Baseball Balls Inspirational Baseball Playing Baseball Motivational Baseball

Book:My life in baseball: the true record

Source: My life in baseball: the true record

“I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.”

Littles Guy Attitude Opinion Player Baseball Importance Schemes My Thoughts Baseball Player

Author:John Rocker

“Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.”

Want Stills Games Baseball

Author:Don Mattingly

“Baseball is like this. Have one good year and you can fool them for five more, because for five more years they expect you to have another good one.”

Years Five Fool Baseball Good Years

Author:Frankie Frisch

“Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so thats why Im a basketball fanatic.”

Littles Country Bits Levels College Grew Basketball Little Bit Grew Up Baseball Clubs Soccer Cricket Fanatics

Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong

“Baseball is not a grind for me.”

Baseball Grind

Author:Steve Finley

“Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.”

Looks Jobs House Team Building Baseball Architect Builder Baseball Team

Author:Pat Gillick

“I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.”

Kids Mother Father Felt Dangerous Football Quiet Opposites Baseball Profession Boxers Mother And Father

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard

“I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.”

Stills Play Bigs Kids Used Stuff Boys Player Baseball Cowboy Astronaut Baseball Player

Author:Bryan Cranston

“My favorite part of any baseball book - and I read a lot of them - is the anecdotes. I believe there is a story within every boxscore and for me - the more outrageous the better!”

Believe Book Stories I Believe Baseball My Favorite Outrageous Anecdotes

Author:Jonathan Weeks

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