Best baseball & fans Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.”

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“Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.”

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“Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.”

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Author:Thomas Boswell

“All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.”

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Book:How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

Source: How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

“The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.”

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Book:Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

Source: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

“[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.”

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Author:Carol Tavris

“People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and gave me the finger.”

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Author:Graig Nettles

“I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver.”

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Author:Logan Marshall-Green

“In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.”

Source: Boy Toy

“I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.”

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Author:Noah Baumbach

“I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.”

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Author:George Will

“If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to the park, because they aren't true baseball fans.”

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Author:George Brett

“I'm not going to get a hit every time in clutch situations, but over the course of the season I'll get a lot of clutch hits. I'm disappointed it's come to a time when they (Orioles fans) boo me. And then to turn around and have the nerve to cheer for you, that's the way baseball goes.”

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Author:Albert Belle

“The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.”

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Author:Andrea Tantaros

“If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.”

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Author:Jerry Coleman

“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

“Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.”

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Author:Carlos Cuaron

“True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.”

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Book:Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball

Source: Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball

“The World Series is something that rarely gets to a number of venues in professional baseball. And that's one problem because we want the fan base of particular cities to participate in the World Series, even though there may be a lull in the particular performance of the regional team.”

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Author:Scott Boras

“In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.”

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Author:Adam Dunn

“Everyone says the best fans in baseball are here [in Boston] and I can't wait to be a part of that.”

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Author:Jason Bay

“It is nice to have the fans recognize you, not because it makes you feel like a big-time player, but because they enjoy watching baseball and they like watching us play. It's going to get even better being here. Pretty soon, the city could be one of the best places to play.”

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Author:Ryan Zimmerman

“One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.”

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Author:Sharon Olds

“I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Fans don't boo nobodies.”

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Author:Reggie Jackson

“As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.”

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Author:Bob Feller

“I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.”

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Author:Garth Brooks

“My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.”

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Author:Chris Hardwick

“Boston fans - and New York fans are the same - it doesn't matter what you do outside of baseball, they don't forgive or forget that you play in pinstripes and they don't care about your interests off the field.”

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Author:Bronson Arroyo

“The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.”

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Author:Orrin Hatch

“After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.”

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Author:W. P. Kinsella

“I was a baseball fan, at any rate.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I grew up in East St. Louis so I wanted to play baseball as a kid. Then I moved to Nebraska and became a football fan and wanted to play football. But I've always been fighting. Growing up in East St. Louis was hard. You had to fight there.”

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Author:Houston Alexander

“Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“I have lots of favorites movies. I say this only because it's a favorite movie because it's a sport I love. I'm a huge baseball fan. There are movies I like as much as this, but I sort of single this movie out because I'm a baseball nut, and that's 'Field of Dreams.'”

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Author:Rick Santorum

“New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.”

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Author:Dick Williams

“Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.”

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Author:Pat Conroy

“I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.”

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Author:Mike Ditka

“The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.”

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Author:Andre Dawson

“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”

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Author:Lou Gehrig

“Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.”

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Author:William Saroyan

“I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes.”

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Author:Leon Wagner

“I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.”

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Author:Bo Jackson

“Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.”

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

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Author:Jay Baer

“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.”

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Author:Denis Norden

“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.”

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

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

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