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“Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.”

Inspirational May Hard Football Basketball Baseball Agency Hockey Screws Allegiance Free Agency

Author:Bill Goldberg

“I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.”

Kids Stuff Boys Football Basketball Baseball Playing Baseball

Author:Catherine Bell

“I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.”

Inspirational Littles Games Grew Dad Basketball Grew Up Baseball My Dad League Fanatics Little League

Author:Jonah Hill

“When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.”

Kids Sports Football Basketball Baseball Athlete Soccer

Author:Scott Caan

“"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11". So I just picked baseball."”

Thinking Inspirational Made Father Black College Particular Basketball Baseball Made It Quarterback

Author:Willie Mays

“I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.”

Thinking America Culture Grows Sports Growing Up Football Huge Basketball Baseball Soccer Hockey

Author:Claudio Reyna

“I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.”

Inspirational Children Play School Games Sports Interest Football Mets Basketball Baseball Ice Neighborhood Hockey Yards Ice Hockey Touch Football

Author:Steven Chu

“What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.”

“It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.”

Kind May Left Wife Fans Months Baseball Cricket October Bloopers Cricket Funny

Author:Denis Norden

“They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.”

Should Justice Republican Pure Baseball Supposed To Be Islands Calculations Umpires Icy Dispassionate

Author:George Will

“That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em.”

Knows Giving Guy Girl Games Worry Crazy Baseball Lifts Ems Cop Lungs Pretty Girl

Author:Humphrey Bogart

“[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.”

Giving Baseball Balls Damn Curves Knuckleballs

Author:Jimmy Cannon

“Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.”

“It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.”

Sports Interest Wonderful Female Baseball Uniforms Coincidence Old Time Funny Baseball Flannels Leotards

Author:Mike Royko

“In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.”

Wells May Doe Law Games Masters Baseball Average Cricket Law Of Averages

Author:Neville Cardus

“There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.”

Mean Games Quality Ought Baseball Ass Reckoning Scoreboard

Author:Neville Cardus

“Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.”

Thinking Knows Stills Play Saws Fields Position Baseball Balls Idols Cartoon Bugs Bunnies Famous Baseball

Author:Nomar Garciaparra

“A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined.”

People World Mean Names Sports Team New York Baseball Hated Surround Heritage Uniforms Yankees Old Days Dose New York Yankees Mystique

Author:Paul Blair

“The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.”

Baseball Famous Baseball Free Throw Chamberlain Designated Hitter

Author:Rick Wise

“One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.”

Men Has Beens Running Games Behinds Fans He Man Duty Argument Baseball Chiefs Department

Book:The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News

Source: The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News

“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.”

People Thinking Feels Stills Games Emotion Childhood Summer Baseball Incredibles Baseball Player Pastime Baseball Games Baseball Hitting American Baseball

Author:Steve Busby

“Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.”

Way Art States Hands Seems Fans Picks Baseball Reaching Disorder Dedicated Washing Obsessive Baseball Games Baseball Fans Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Author:Thomas Boswell

“If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.”

Ifs Fronts Baby Picks Baseball Toys Preference Tris Baby Boy Center Fielders

Author:Tris Speaker

“I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.”

Bigs Film Creative Grew Grew Up Baseball Cameras Guitar Bats

Author:Abel Ferrara

“Baseball is a man maker.”

Men Baseball Makers

Author:Albert Goodwill Spalding

“Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.”

Childhood Baseball

Author:Alyssa Milano

“Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.”

Way Games Sound Baseball Sight Smell Parks

Author:Alyssa Milano

“The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.”

Thinking Knows Way Happens Beautiful Realizing Baseball Exciting Things Happen Beautiful Things Anything Can Happen

Author:Alyssa Milano

“Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.”

Play Moments Eye Action Baseball Balls Plates Pitcher Gloves

Author:Bill Klem

“Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.”

Games Baseball

Author:Bill Klem

“So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.”

Two Sports Baseball

Author:Bo Jackson

“So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.”

Sports Baseball Focused

Author:Bo Jackson

“Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.”

Play Sports Baseball Harder Train Everyday

Author:Bo Jackson

“I was acting when I was playing baseball.”

Acting Baseball Playing Baseball

Author:Bob Uecker

“Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.”

Thinking Kids Boys Example Mines Proud Capable Baseball Terrific Teammate Playing Baseball

Author:Bob Uecker

“After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.”

Wanted Baseball

Author:Bob Uecker

“Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.”

Mean Done Film Stuff Chance Television Baseball Bragging

Author:Bob Uecker

“It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.”

Moments Lasts Speak Player Baseball Contracts Bats Last Words Gloves Sure Thing

Author:Brooks Robinson

“I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.”

Thinking Young Realizing Arms Baseball Strategy Pitcher

Author:Bruce McCulloch

“When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.”

Thinking Littles Bigs Would Be School Girl Football High School Baseball Nine Iron Santa Jackets Freshman Flutes Monica Letterman Santa Monica

Author:Carson Daly

“Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.”

Baseball Rebellion Relevant Uprising

Book:The way it is

Source: The way it is

“The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.”

Gone Baseball Saved

Author:Curt Schilling

“One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.”

Years Issues Cutting Huge Wall Baseball Bedroom Collages

Author:Curt Schilling

“Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.”

Years Effort Millions Stupid My Family Baseball Insane Irresponsible Gaming

Author:Curt Schilling

“I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.”

Knows Made Able Amount Baseball Passionate Insane Playing Baseball

Author:Curt Schilling

“I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.”

Kids Careers Four Wife Baseball

Author:Curt Schilling

“My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.”

Wanted Mother Games Mom Baseball My Mom

Author:David Ortiz

“I just want to play baseball.”

Want Play Baseball

Author:David Ortiz

“Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game”

Opportunity Games Situation Fans Fields Baseball Leisure Offering Spectators Interruptions Sluggish

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'”

Ifs Years Would Be Next Millions Team Mets Baseball Financial Average Folks Newspapers Income Chains Next Year Pinnacle Food Chain Baseball Team

Author:Eric Alterman

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