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“You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.”

Humor Funny Gone Baseball

Author:Jerry Coleman

“Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.”

Humor Funny Baseball Deck Circuits Kent

Author:Jerry Coleman

“Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.”

Humor Funny Interesting Numbers Baseball

Author:Jerry Coleman

“Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.”

People Thinking Firsts Ends Humor Funny Lines Crosses Baseball Cards Wire Finish Line

Author:Jerry Coleman

“He many not be hurt as much as he really is.”

Humor Funny Hurt Baseball

Author:Jerry Coleman

“From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.”

Way Humor Eye Funny Baseball Shoulders His Eyes Injured Shaking Gnats

Author:Jerry Coleman

“Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.”

Humor Funny Baseball Diving Shovels

Author:Jerry Coleman

“There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.”

Humor Funny Numbers Baseball Giants Warming Up

Author:Jerry Coleman

“Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.”

Humor Funny Baseball Thirds Eyeballs

Author:Jerry Coleman

“Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.”

Humor Funny Fairs Baseball Thirds Territory

Author:Jerry Coleman

“There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.”

Humor Funny Shots Baseball Foul Alleys

Author:Jerry Coleman

“Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.”

Giving Wells Kind Humor Bigs Funny Guy Kissing Baseball Come Up Hug

Author:Jerry Coleman

“And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.”

Long Humor Funny Lines Baseball Long Drive

Author:Jerry Coleman

“That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.”

Two Humor Funny Baseball Extras Fourth

Author:Jerry Coleman

“Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.”

Humor Funny Night Baseball Crowds Evening Houston

Author:Jerry Coleman

“Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1.”

Humor Funny Three Baseball Atlanta Montreal

Author:Jerry Coleman

“The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.”

Firsts Humor Funny Left Waiting Minutes Fields Lows Baseball Balls Grounded Left Field

Author:Jerry Coleman

“That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.”

Home Humor Running Funny Figures Baseball Home Run

Author:Jerry Coleman

“I follow the baseball team on the Internet more than I do the football team. Generally you can get a Nebraska game anywhere. Before I started doing big arenas and stuff and had a tour bus when I was just working comedy clubs way back when I would always listen to the games in my hotel room on the Internet.”

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Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.”

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Book:Al Pacino

Source: Al Pacino

“When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that's why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn't fall asleep. That gift I have still.”

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Author:Bill Murray

“One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.”

Ifs Knows Trying Long Turns Know How Baseball Cheeks Bats Angle Turn The Other Cheek

Author:Maya Angelou

“You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?”

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Author:Chris Rock

“I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason.”

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Author:Frank Thomas

“I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.”

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Author:Eric Hutchinson

“I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.”

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Author:Barry Pepper

“If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.”

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Author:Rickey Henderson

“This guy from L.A. sits down next to me, and he says "you like baseball?" I said, "Oh, man, I love baseball." So he goes "Did you know that if Jesus had played ball, he'd have been the greatest ball player ever?" Like I'm gonna argue with that logic. So I sat there for a second, and then I said "did you know that if Babe Ruth had been the Messiah, the Catholics would have beer and hot dogs at Communion?" He left.”

“When you're famous you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full Madonna kit - it doesn't work: my stupid face is too big.”

Humor Bigs Funny Faces Stupid Baseball Disguise Caps Sunglasses Moustache Baseball Caps Topshop

Author:Noel Fielding

“I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home.”

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Author:Gerry Lindgren

“There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.”

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Author:Kwame Kilpatrick

“Yogi's been an inspiration to me, not only because of his baseball skills, but of course for the enduring mark he left on the English language. Some in the press corps think he might even be my speechwriter.”

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Author:George H. W. Bush

“I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I'm not gonna make it working... I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way.”

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Author:Yogi Berra

“Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.”

Real Matter Sports Football Basketball Baseball Despise

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“I enjoy traveling and playing baseball.Other than that, the minor leagues are tough. The wear and tear on your body.. and it's tough to stay on a nutrition program because you can only eat what is within walking distance of the hotel and what the clubhouse provides.”

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Author:Tyler Thornburg

“I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.”

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Author:Clint Howard

“I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.”

Fighting Football Baseball Pitcher

Author:Pablo Francisco

“I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.”

Play Wanted Half Growing Football Basketball Baseball Balls

Author:Moses Malone

“You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into this private school? Can I get this girl to go out with me Saturday night? Am I going to get the promotion in my office?" All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it's completely meaningless.”

“What's cool about baseball is you don't have to see someone for years, but when you see them, you just hustle up and give them a big hug. Those friendships endure.”

Giving Years Bigs Baseball Endure Hug Hustle

Author:Jim Abbott

“Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.”

Feels Opportunity Games Baseball Sorry Plenty Upset Feel Sorry For You

Author:Mark Teixeira

“No matter what I do on the baseball field, no matter how hard I try to be a good player, no matter how hard I try to be a good father or a good husband, I can never do enough. I can never be perfect in this world. But God's there to tell me that it's not what you do, it's whom you believe in and it's Him loving me.”

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Author:Mark Teixeira

“I don't play baseball first. I put Christ first in my life. I put my family behind Him and I put baseball down the line. I obviously want to succeed. I want to do well. I want to perform. But at the same time, I'm at peace that no matter what happens on this earth, the more important part is being a Christian, and being in the Kingdom of Heaven when it's all said and done.”

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Author:Mark Teixeira

“I have a relationship with Christ. It allows me to handle situations better. It allows me to treat people better and it allows me to have a better mental attitude towards baseball.”

People Christ Attitude Situation Baseball Treats Handle Mental Attitude

Author:Mark Teixeira

“Obviously, the only reason I'm where I am is because God has gifted me and He has seen fit to put me where I am. I have to honor that by using my influence and my status on the team and in the game of baseball for good and to His purpose.”

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Author:Lance Berkman

“Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.”

“Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.”

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Book:Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sports

Source: Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sports

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