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“If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.”

Ifs World Games Lines Picks Baseball Series Pitcher World Series

Author:Mickey Mantle

“Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.”

People Years Wells Play Lasts Desire Hell Six Baseball League Yankees Stadiums Drained Ballparks Yankee Stadium Yankee Fans

Author:Roger Maris

“All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.”

Remember Lost Baseball Cubs Wedding Day

Author:George Will

“Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?”

Long Said Games Half Century Habit Essentials Baseball Seasons Institutions Rhythm Rising Crescendo

Author:George Will

“Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.”

Heaven Sports Baseball Mortals

Author:George Will

“Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.”

Thinking Baseball Thinker Oxymoron Trivia

Book:Bunts

Source: Bunts

“It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.”

Baseball Clock Ties Organized Progression Intrusion

Author:George Will

“I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball”

Acting Serious Baseball

Author:Kurt Russell

“I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.”

Kind Boys Comfortable Baseball Dresses Hats Like A Boy

Author:Mae Whitman

“I rarely think the market is right. I believe non dividend stocks aren't much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it.”

Thinking Believe I Believe Pay Baseball Investing Cards Convince Dividends Baseball Cards

Author:Mark Cuban

“When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.”

Knows Want Two Dream Kids Player Team Baseball Restaurants Now And Then Chef Hometown Baseball Player Hiroshima Sushi Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Author:Masaharu Morimoto

“I wanted to be a professional baseball player.”

Wanted Player Baseball Baseball Player

Author:Balthazar Getty

“I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.”

Enough Stuff Team Baseball Good Enough Team Building Baseball Team

Author:Balthazar Getty

“I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.”

Terrible Baseball Athletic

Author:Matt Long

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

Giving Trying Grew Grew Up Baseball Cricket American Baseball

Author:Jeremy London

“All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.”

Years I Can Shows Reading Stars Player Rocks Baseball Asking Angry Lips Awards Rock Star Baseball Player Deafness Award Shows

Author:Marlee Matlin

“The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.”

“I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.”

Wanted School Lasts Forget Amount Picks Baseball Rounds

Author:Mike Piazza

“You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody”

People Thinking Knows Guy Order Stars Enjoy Crazy Middle Rocks Truth Is Baseball South Pops Parks Rock And Roll Old People Soda American Guys Soda Pop

Author:Trey Parker

“I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!”

Fields Baseball Crowds Lovely Enjoyed Being There Wrigley Field

Author:Bea Arthur

“Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.”

Believe Wanted Growing Up Growing Player Baseball Radio Djs Baseball Player

Author:Casey Kasem

“Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.”

Thinking Feels Fighting Games Lost Baseball Southern Accents Shouting Baseball Games Come Back To Me Tell Me The Truth Southern Accent

Author:Cleo Moore

“Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.”

Baseball Bills Yankees New York Yankees Isms Famous Baseball Great Baseball Yankees Baseball

Author:Yogi Berra

“Texas has a lot of electrical votes.”

Funny Vote Baseball Texas Electrical

Author:Yogi Berra

“I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.”

Wish Fields Baseball Balls Chests Famous Baseball Great Baseball Baseball Field

Author:Yogi Berra

“I didn't really say everything I said.”

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Author:Yogi Berra

“I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!”

Ifs Knows Hell Beats Baseball

Author:Yogi Berra

“Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.”

Fall Dying Football Spring Baseball Seasons New Life

Book:The Best of Brain Droppings

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings

“I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look at baseball, where 10 000 sit on their ass to watch a handful of players”

World Looks Whole Funny Sports Watches Player Rocks Baseball Whole World Ass Climbing Finest Handful Rock Climbing Inspirational Mountain Climbing

Author:John Salathe

“Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball.”

Important Baseball Pitching Family Is Everything

Author:Luis Tiant

“The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.”

Ifs Moving Five Baseball Pitching Fastballs

Author:Luis Tiant

“Baseball is a sport where being stupid and keeping things really simple a lot of times is the right way to do things. There are very few guys that are capable of processing a lot of information and applying it and still being good at it. … I don't want to name names, but there were guys I played with that were so stupid that they're really good, because their mind never gets in the way.”

Way Want Mind Stills Guy Names Sports Simple Stupid Information Capable Baseball Be Good Right Way Processing Being Stupid

Author:Zack Greinke

“George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.”

Play Stories Home Eye Running Reading Fun Love Is Possibility Fairs Baseball Details Memoir League Home Run Baseball Love Eye For Detail

Author:Robert Kroetsch

“Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.”

Business Fans Baseball Social Media Cards Activate Baseball Cards

Author:Jay Baer

“People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game.”

“I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.”

Ifs Play Half Fields Baseball If I Could Salary Dump Wrigley Field

Author:Babe Ruth

“If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.”

Ifs Fighting Father Streets Brother Baseball Died Violent Injury Temper Cemetery Baltimore Older Brother Flare

Author:Babe Ruth

“I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.”

I Can Sports Born Baseball Ties

Author:Barry Bonds

“I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination and technically hit a baseball.”

Ifs Knows Believe Helping Hands Eye Baseball Don't Believe Steroid Coordination

Author:Barry Bonds

“I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.”

People Ifs Thinking Play Bigs Father Sports Expectations Baseball Pressure Ties

Author:Barry Bonds

“When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.”

Thinking Sports College Baseball Coaches Ties College Baseball

Author:Barry Bonds

“Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.”

Knows Needs Care Young Know How Player Baseball Take Care

Author:Barry Bonds

“I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.”

Thinking Saws Player Baseball Baseball Player Best Baseball

Author:Willie Mays

“The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.”

Thinking World Way Should Reason Challenges College Should Have Baseball Educated Graduates Adjusting Business World College Graduates Playing Baseball

Author:Willie Mays

“I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game”

People Ifs Years Helping Problem Guy Games Lucky Baseball Help Me Baseball Games Lucky Guy

Author:Willie Mays

“Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.”

Motivational Sports Keys Baseball Defense Playing Baseball

Author:Willie Mays

“I think there are some players born to play ball.”

Thinking Play Sports Born Player Baseball Balls

Author:Joe DiMaggio

“When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.”

Games Baseball Bases Kicks Best Baseball Gentlemanly

Author:Ty Cobb

“Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.”

Percent Hundred Baseball

Author:Ty Cobb

“I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York”

Want Winning New York Taste Baseball Boxing

Author:David Wright

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