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“What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'”

Giving Looks Made Stills Bigs Today Lasts Past Steps Nice Land Lucky Hundred My Friends Baseball Balls Give Me Twenties Made It Twenty One Prestige Acres

Author:Mark Fidrych

“All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an object to hurl, you'd end up with that little spheroid small enough to nestle in your fingers but big enough to have some heft, lighter than a rock but heavier than a hunk of wood. Its even, neat stitching, laced into the leather's slippery white surface, gives your fingers a purchase. A baseball was made to throw. It's almost irresistible.”

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Author:Dave Dravecky

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

Made Games Forget Baseball Never Forget

Author:Don Larsen

“I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.”

World Made Film Games Industry Easier Baseball Debt Made It Entrances Film Industry

Author:Chuck Connors

“Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.”

Kind Made Football Basketball Baseball Momentum

Author:William C. Rhoden

“Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.”

Firsts Made Humor Funny Lying Team Baseball Acquisition Philadelphia

Author:Jerry Coleman

“Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.”

Made Play Humor Funny Baseball Having Fun

Author:Jerry Coleman

“When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that's why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn't fall asleep. That gift I have still.”

People Knows Way Littles Made Stills Kids Used Fall Baseball Managers Call Me Know Me Little Kid Sleepy Catchers Playing Baseball Kids Playing

Author:Bill Murray

“And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.”

Ifs Want Mind Made Two Play Remember Sports Boys Football Doctors Baseball Raised Boxes Legs Two Things Boyish

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.”

Thinking Made Games Sports Mistake Baseball Hitting Baseball Hitting

Author:Ted Williams

“I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That's when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list.”

Made Five Baseball Lists Miles Ran Bus Marijuana Reporters Pancakes Bowie Ballparks Impervious Commissioners

Author:Bill Lee

“Man was not made to travel faster than a baseball”

Men Made Baseball Faster

Author:Yogi Berra

“I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Made Mistake Baseball Abandon Miami Vacant Biggest Mistake Mlb

Author:Andrew Zimbalist

“A lot of people think that you have to specialize in one sport from an early age in order to turn pro. Most of my teammates played a lot of different sports when we were kids. I liked to golf, water ski and play baseball. That helped me develop other aspects of my game and made me WANT to be on the ice even more once hockey season started.”

People Thinking Want Made Different Play Kids Age Order Turns Games Sports Water Aspect Baseball Seasons Golf Ice Hockey Teammate Skis

Author:Pat LaFontaine

“The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement of all. God offers each of us the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. When we accept God's gift of salvation, our name is written in the Book of Life, guaranteeing us a place in heaven forever. I made that decision during spring training in 1973, asking Jesus to come into my heart as Lord and Savior.”

“Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.”

Trying Years Made Wanted Remember Mother Rooms Baseball Upset Frustrated Messy Frogs Garage Stepfathers Garage Sale

Author:Nate Berkus

“I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn’t know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, ‘Mom, I don’t like direct sunlight, I don’t like bugs, I don’t like grass, and I’d rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.’”

Knows Made Said Play Mother Desire House Interesting Boys Mom Gay Direct Baseball Grass Sunlight Fabric Bugs Sample

Author:Nate Berkus

“For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best.”

“I had to come out on stage with my little staff and robe and I had this sun on top of my head that my mom made - that was the first time I was ever on stage singing in front of anybody. I realized that I was one of the best acts of the night but I didn't give singing much thought after that. I was really into playing baseball.”

Giving Firsts Littles Made Night Sun Stage Fronts Mom Singing First Time Baseball My Mom I Realized Staff Robes Playing Baseball

Author:Gonjasufi

“I was never one of those kids that felt like I had to go to practice or that I was being made to go to practice or forced to play the game. Baseball was a natural fit for me.”

Made Play Kids Games Felt Natural Practice Fit Baseball

Author:Tyler Hoechlin

“I made the Dixie Heights High School baseball team as an 8th grader and went on to have a very successful career. I was all state both my junior and senior years leading our team 3 district championships and 1 regional championship in 2001 which hadn't happened since 1991. My number has since been retired at Dixie Heights and a banner hangs from the outfield fence with my name and number on it.”

“Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.”

“We made too many wrong mistakes.”

Source: The Yogi Book

“The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.”

“I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.”

Littles Made Kids Dog Car Figures Red Baseball Bigger Bottom Tiny Passing Passings Frightened Vow Shaking Housewife Porch Miniatures Pittsburgh Kids Playing

Book:The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Source: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

“He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.”

Made Funny Baseball Died

Author:Yogi Berra

“My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.”

Made Kids Wanted Player Fronts Baseball Seats Rapper Yankees Stadiums Sixteen Baseball Player Great Baseball Yankee Stadium Yankee Fans

Author:James Caan

“He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly.”

Men Mind Believe Made Wanted America Games Sports Changed Baseball Dancing Dance Ballet Genes Just Dance Ballet Dance Ballet Dancing

Author:Liza Minnelli

“Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.”

Made Kids Funny Baseball Screws Famous Baseball Funny Baseball Great Baseball Little League Baseball

Author:Bob Lemon

“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.”

Made War Beautiful Proud Baseball Greed Flesh Chess Senses Substitutes Cricket Mixtures Medieval Chivalry Famous Baseball Medieval War Cricket Funny

Author:John Fowles

“Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.”

Made Mistake Baseball Gave Up Pitching Babe Ruth Great Mistakes

Author:Tris Speaker

“He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.”

Years Made Next Nations Party Generations Baseball Drinking Santa Joyous Whiskey Babe Parades Santa Claus Ruth Dazzle Groaning Jingles Heirlooms

Author:Jimmy Cannon

“The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.”

Made Ends Guy Break Player Fame Baseball Golf Driving Range Eggs Halls Unusual Swings Bats Hall Of Fame Prettiest

Book:Buried Lies: True Tales and Tall Stories from the PGA Tour

Source: Buried Lies: True Tales and Tall Stories from the PGA Tour

“I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.”

Made Two Games Effort Baseball Arguing Two Things Umpires Gamer

Author:Leo Durocher

“Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.”

Made Two Body Three Games Natural Movement Baseball Your Body Pitcher Pitching Softball

Author:Jamie Moyer

“The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied.”

Knows Made States Kids Law Given Streets Crime Gun Baseball Rate Violent Satisfied Enthusiasm Britain Decline Bats Concealed Proliferation Goblin Concealed Carry

Author:Jeff Cooper

“Jim Fregosi was not only one of the most respected men in baseball, he was a great man. He was a player's manager. He had that special gift as a manager that made you want to get to the field and play your ass off for him. Jim Fregosi was the reason that 1993 was one of the most exciting years in Philadelphia sports history.”

Men Want Years Made Reason Play Sports Player Special Fields Baseball Exciting Ass Managers Great Men Philadelphia Special Gifts

Author:Lenny Dykstra

“"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

“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.”

“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 bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.”

Looks Made Different Games Mistake Team Baseball Throwing Betting Different Looks

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.”

“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