Best baseball & games Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.”

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Author:Michael Lewis

“They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.”

Thinking Way Seems Games Baseball Come Up

Author:Mike Quade

“A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.”

Games Drug Baseball Clouds Hang Over

Author:Peter Ueberroth

“I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.”

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Author:Adam Yauch

“I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.”

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Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.”

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Author:Sadaharu Oh

“What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.”

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Author:Brady Anderson

“One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.”

Inspiration Games Becoming Baseball Boards Board Games

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.”

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.”

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Book:The Business of Life

Source: The Business of Life

“Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.”

Games Baseball Forgotten

Author:Alvin Dark

“The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.”

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Author:Warren Spahn

“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.”

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Book:Farewell to Sport

Source: Farewell to Sport

“Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.”

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Book:The Will Rogers book

Source: The Will Rogers book

“Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.”

Doe Past Games Tomorrow Baseball

Author:Roberto Clemente

“I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.”

Giving Play Able Father Games Boys Prove Baseball Give Me My Boys Quentin

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.”

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Author:Jennifer Garner

“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.”

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Author:Charles Krauthammer

“The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.”

Turns Games Baseball Brilliant

Author:David Wright

“We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.”

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Author:Bengie Molina

“I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.”

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Author:Joe DiMaggio

“There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.”

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Author:Alvin Dark

“Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.”

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Author:Joshua Ferris

“There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.”

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Book:Rabbit Redux

Source: Rabbit Redux

“Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.”

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Author:J. R. Moehringer

“I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.”

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Author:Terry Bradshaw

“The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.”

Games Baseball Appeals

Author:Mike Pesca

“When I get on the field, it's just going to be another game, You get out there and it's just baseball.”

Games Fields Baseball

Author:Eric Byrnes

“Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres.”

Games Baseball Yeah Betting Baseball Games

Book:Detour

Source: Detour

“Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

“So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.”

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Author:Leigh Steinberg

“They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game.”

Made Games Forget Baseball Never Forget

Author:Don Larsen

“In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.”

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Author:Gabe Paul

“I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.”

Doe Games Baseball Symbols

Author:Bob Costas

“I'm just worried about winning baseball. I'm only worried about what I can do to help the team win. It's about improving in every facet of the game. I think that's everyone's goals. Whatever we can do to help the team win is what we'll do. I think Andy has done a great job of coming in and helping our offense. AD is getting those pitchers ready. Coach Mainieri is going to coach up some wins this year. We are very excited and working on every facet of the game.”

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Author:Alex Bregman

“I don't think I've changed very much. I think I'm the same kid that I was when I got here. When I came here all I wanted to do was win games. I wanted to play baseball for LSU and be the ultimate team player. That's all I want to do. If we don't end up being the last team to win the game at the end of the year then I won't be happy. That's all I'm worried about this year.”

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Author:Alex Bregman

“Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.”

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Author:Michael Wilbon

“[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever read or heard about. [It's] research and documentation clarifies so many of the personalities and events that took place before 'my time' in the game. Jacques Barzun's quote: 'Whoever would know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball' should be supplanted by [this] biography of Landis.”

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Author:Ralph Kiner

“No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.”

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Author:Ken Burns

“Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.”

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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.”

“Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.”

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Author:Barbara Holland

“Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.”

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Book:The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary

Source: The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary

“Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.”

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Book:Buttered Side Down

Source: Buttered Side Down

“Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.”

“I managed 26 years and found out when I retired I didn't own the game. I thought I owned it when I was managing all those years. You can climb to the top of the mountain, get down on your knees and kiss the ground, because you'll never own that mountain. That mountain is only owned by one single person, and he'll never give it up. That's the way baseball is.”

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Author:Sparky Anderson

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