“When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."”
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“The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.”
“I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.”
“I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.”
“Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.”
“I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.”
“I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.”
“What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.”
“I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.”
“To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.”
“Today I am the greatest of all time.”
Source: Off Base: Confessions of a Thief
“Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.”
“A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.”
“Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.”
“Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.”
Source: Shoeless Joe
“Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.”
Source: Life on the Run
“But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has "struck out."”
“He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961
“I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.”
“My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.”
“Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.”
“Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.”
Source: Nice Guys Finish Last
“Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.”
“Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.”
“Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.”
Source: Bunts
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961
“The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.”
Source: Weaver on Strategy
“A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.”
“It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.”
“Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.”