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“If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.”

Ifs Way Want Enough Resources Baseball Investigators

Author:Pete Rose

“What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.”

Guy Games Baseball

Author:Pete Rose

“I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.”

“If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.”

Source: My Prison Without Bars

“The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.”

Games Baseball Riches Playing Games

Author:Ernie Banks

“Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.”

People Thinking Mean Young Flower Spring Training Optimism Baseball Sunshine Time To Think Spring Training

Author:Ernie Banks

“I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.”

Would Be Able Sports Interest Realizing Steps My Family Baseball

Author:Nolan Ryan

“I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.”

Men Use Steps Baseball Bats Hesitation Dodgers

Author:Satchel Paige

“It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.”

Body Baseball Body Temperature

Book:Maybe I'll Pitch Forever

Source: Maybe I'll Pitch Forever

“One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.”

Firsts Knowing Team Baseball Balls One Time Smooth Runners Winding Up

Author:Satchel Paige

“There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.”

Men Earth Arms Baseball Stronger

Author:Satchel Paige

“They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.”

Giving Said Justice Baseball Give Me They Said Pitcher

Author:Satchel Paige

“Don't eat fried food, it angries up the blood.”

Blood Baseball Fried Food

Author:Satchel Paige

“My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.”

Names Player Baseball Best Players Kenneth

Author:Ken Griffey, Jr.

“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”

States United United States Baseball Chicago Contests Cubs Chicago Cubs

Author:Ishmael Reed

“Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.”

Important Action Chance Democracy Player Hero Models Baseball

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it.”

Country Play Actors Player Mountain Baseball Singers Broadway Yankees Ladders Stadiums Baseball Player Yankee Stadium Country Singer

Author:Bill Anderson

“I love baseball. You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything. It’s just very beautiful to watch.”

Knows Mean Beautiful Watches Baseball Very Beautiful Baseball Love

Book:Three Films of Woody Allen

Source: Three Films of Woody Allen

“Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.”

Persons Culture Lows Baseball Beer Meatballs

Author:Woody Allen

“I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.”

Cry Baseball Playing Baseball

Author:Thom Yorke

“I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.”

Wanted Baseball Smoke Hanging Out Loser Cigarette

Author:Kurt Cobain

“We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.”

“I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.”

Men Play Whole Games Tears Baseball Whole Life Strings

Author:Brooks Robinson

“I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.”

Wanted Guy Passion Names Baseball Everyday Obsession

Author:Brooks Robinson

“Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.”

Believe Helping Motivational Support Player Baseball Believe In Yourself Associates Believe In You Trust Yourself Be True To Yourself People In Your Life

Author:Brooks Robinson

“I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.”

Inspirational Years Has Beens Motivational Deserve Baseball Famous Baseball Another Year Deserve Better

Author:George Brett

“It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.”

Book Three Chance Four Honor Baseball Paragraph Nolan Strikeouts

Author:Rickey Henderson

“This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.”

Want Play Calling Baseball Behalf

Author:Rickey Henderson

“I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.”

Years I Can Lasts Names Baseball Recalls Babe Ruth

Author:Hank Aaron

“I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.”

Sports Practice Middle Baseball Concentration Baseball Player Famous Baseball Batting American Baseball Batting Practice

Author:Hank Aaron

“In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about Stan Musial, Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.”

Different Bigs Guy Special Baseball Legs League Pants Something Special Pedestal Jackie

Author:Hank Aaron

“People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.”

People Thinking Years Funny Realizing Millions Player Baseball Baseball Player Funny Baseball

Author:Pete Incaviglia

“Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!”

“I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.”

Age Havens Baseball Pretending Uniforms Halloween Costumes Halloween Costume

Author:Ken Fox

“Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.”

Guy Car Baseball Balls Wet Car Wash

Author:Pete Rose

“There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.”

World Littles Sports Adults Baseball Series Cures League Motivational Sports World Series Little League

Author:Mike Penner

“Give him a crowd, a gallery worthy of his best effort, and the old warrior will put on his show... He isn't what he use to be. But pack the stands, turn up the lights, and who is it brings down the house with his act? The Babe!”

Giving Use Shows Light Turns House Effort Baseball Crowds Worthy Warrior Packs Gallery Babe Best Effort Use To Be

Author:John J. Kiernan

“The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.”

Humans Made Hands Baseball Human Hands

Book:The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects

Source: The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects

“Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.”

Past Father Son Baseball Green Grass Sunshine Father And Son Green Grass

Book:The Business of Baseball

Source: The Business of Baseball

“I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.”

Thinking Years Ideas Enough Wonder Baseball Experiments Get Back Worn Novelty Playing Baseball Designated Hitter

Author:Jay Mohr

“Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?”

Player Baseball Dresses Coaches Managers Baseball Managers

Author:Jay Mohr

“Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.”

Trying Mean Enough Moving Sides Situation Baseball Balls Blind Photograph Patterns Flight Data Bats Sideways Gauges Collide Blind Side

Author:Marcus Sakey

“Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.”

Way Next Greater Baseball Institutions Impact Presidential American Way Of Life

Author:Herbert Hoover

“It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.”

Stills Hard Reality Sound Decision Player Fields Highest Baseball Farms Execution Components Salary Just Saying

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we had on last year was considered filler until we could get to the good stuff. It was meant to hopefully get us to January andor to November. To get past baseball. But (it) didn't work very well.”

Years Wells Reality Lasts Past Fall Stuff Honest Baseball Hopefully Being Honest Programming Idols Fourth Last Year Fifth November January American Idol Fillers

Author:Mike Darnell

“Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Mind Said Reality Office Majors Decided Baseball Rose One Way League Void Unfortunate They Said Major League Purgatory Commissioners Major League Baseball

Author:Mike Schmidt

“Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.”

Sports Team Baseball Presidential Sports Team

Author:Herbert Hoover

“I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.”

Years I Can Fans Pride Baseball Devotion Presidential Seventies

Author:Herbert Hoover

“I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.”

Long Perfect Worry Fans Periods Performances Baseball Balls England Strikes Presidential Protest Frustrated Batteries Relapse

Author:Herbert Hoover

“I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'”

Source: The great depression, 1929-1941