“Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.” WorldNeedsMeanLittlesDifferencesBaseballPot Author:Hank Aaron
“Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.” FeelsShouldMeanEndsWantedBaseballSeasonsRelaxedBe ConfidentStrikeoutsClowning Author:Mickey Mantle
“The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.” MeanSawsTeamBaseballYankeesReally MeanBest Team Author:Mickey Mantle
“We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.” TryingKindMeanBookWaitingWorstDisciplineFameLowsBaseballBallsInvestingSizeCornersStrikesFatsSpotsCellsReachingZoneHallsHittingMinorsTicketsBatsHall Of FameDiversification Author:Warren Buffett
“I mean, people think I'm too intense for baseball. I've always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it's like people think something is wrong with that.” PeopleThinkingMeanMatterBaseballNo Matter WhatIntenseBeing The BestMean People Author:Albert Belle
“I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies.” LooksMeanFacesGuySexBaseballMirrorsSymbolsBatsBeatenSex Symbol Author:Javier Bardem
“I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.” MeanHumorFunnyBaseballTag Author:Jerry Coleman
“I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.” ThinkingWantMeanPlayWholeWould BeUsedGamesWinningChanceCareersKnowingPlayerTeamBaseballNeatBaseball PlayerBallparks Author:Carlos Beltran
“It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.” MenLooksMeanSeemsSoundPerfectBoysStageStyleBaseballHarderExpectedShirtsJeansT ShirtCapsMicroscopesBaseball Caps Author:Carrie Underwood
“Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.” IfsWayMeanMomentsHappensGamesWinningTeamTheoryToolsBaseballThings HappenOne WayThat MomentBeing PlayedWinning Team Author:Jon Miller
“After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.” MeanImportantFunnyBlackBaseballReally MeanJackieBaseball History Author:Reggie Jackson
“Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.” PeopleKnowsMeanHomeLightRunningRememberFallNumbersStepsCareersBaseballExperimentsHome RunDid You KnowBulbsLight BulbStrikeouts Author:Denzel Washington
“Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, I'll write about those things because I watch them, I think about them a lot and I like them. But I don't want to write about Barry Bonds.” ThinkingWritingMeanFootballRepublicanBaseballBoxingWant MeProfileYou Want MeIf You Want Me Author:Richard Ford
“I think, a lot of things get wrestled around with Christianity in this day and age about what it means, what it stands for and I think it gets the wrong connotation all over the world. So, for me, using baseball and using Jesus' name - I really just want to focus on Him. I don't want to think about Christianity or the religious aspect of it. You just want to focus on Jesus and loving Jesus. Saying you're a Christian shouldn't turn people off. You should love people well and that's Jesus' first commandment!” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanAgeChristianJesusReligiousChristianityFocusBaseballThis Day Author:Clayton Kershaw
“Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.” PeopleMeanSportsBaseballStatisticsAwards Author:Ernie Banks
“glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine-bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear-I mean, bright white fruit of the Looms.” MenFirstsLooksMeanEasyWhiteClearFeetArmsClothesSkinsBaseballFruitSevenLegsMonstersBunchMagazinesMusclesTallVeinsUnderwearLike SomethingArms And LegsBicepsTriceps Author:Rick Riordan
“Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'.” PeopleIfsMenWayMeanChildrenAbleChristianJesusPrinciplesSacrificeWillingHighestPicksBaseballForgivingSakeBatsNeighbourUnimaginablePacifistExecutioners Author:Frederick Buechner
“Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.” PeopleMenWantNeedsGivingMindMeanDifferentExistenceForeverIdentityThousandGiving UpAspectBaseballMortalsFixedTunesNurseStableRhymeWant SomethingNeed YouBeardCapsNurseryMemesNursery RhymesBaseball Caps Author:Neil Gaiman
“During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.” YearsMeanSportsPlayerFiguresBaseballSeasonsBallsSevenAverageAthleteMotivational SportsHittingBatsInspirational SportsSeven YearsBaseball PlayerFamous BaseballBaseball GamesMotivational Inspirational SportsAthlete MotivationalFunny BaseballGreat BaseballShort SportsShort Inspirational SportsBall GamesShort Motivational SportsAwesome SportsInspirational BaseballPlaying BaseballMotivational BaseballPlaying SportsBaseball HittingFavorite SportsMlbGreatest BaseballFunny Inspirational SportsBall PlayersBaseball HistoryBaseball Season Author:Mickey Mantle
“You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.” KnowsMeanPlayTodayGamesGrowsBoysKnow HowGrowing UpYouthBaseballBallsCome UpRepresentingPastimeBaseball Games Author:Babe Ruth
“Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.” YearsMeanTwoBaseballBallsTouchedTwo YearsBatsFourteenPlaying BaseballStrikeouts Author:Norm Cash
“Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.” MeanCharacterBornGrewGrew UpBaseballHonestlyOne TimeCartoonBabeIndianaRuthCartoon Character Author:Don Mattingly
“All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.” PeopleWorldMeanStillsCoursesSportsPoorMillionsFieldsProveBaseballCourtGolfBoringSoccerTennisPoor PeopleGolf CourseAlleysBowlingPlumbingTennis CourtsBaseball FieldBowling AlleysGreat SoccerIndoor Plumbing Author:Mike Royko
“People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game.” PeopleWayMeanLittlesI CanBigsRunningGamesWinningBitsCan DoTheoryLittle BitToolsBaseballLeagueValentineRight TimeMikeSlidesTeammateRight PlaceHustleBaseball GamesBacking UpLike MikeSchmidt Author:Pete Rose
“There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.” MeanGamesQualityOughtBaseballAssReckoningScoreboard Author:Neville Cardus
“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.” PeopleWorldMeanNamesSportsTeamNew YorkBaseballHatedSurroundHeritageUniformsYankeesOld DaysDoseNew York YankeesMystique Author:Paul Blair
“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.” MeanDoneFilmStuffChanceTelevisionBaseballBragging Author:Bob Uecker
“Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.” PeopleThinkingMeanYoungFlowerSpringTrainingOptimismBaseballSunshineTime To ThinkSpring Training Author:Ernie Banks
“I love baseball. You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything. It’s just very beautiful to watch.” KnowsMeanBeautifulWatchesBaseballVery BeautifulBaseball Love Book:Three Films of Woody Allen Source: Three Films of Woody Allen
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsMeanLittlesI CanWantedSportsTeamRocksTypeDecidedBaseballCleanCrowdsClubsChosenTeethSmokeStayingRejectsHanging OutRock N RollCigaretteJocksBrushingBaseball TeamRock N Roll Music Author:Kurt Cobain
“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.” TryingMeanEnoughMovingSidesSituationBaseballBallsBlindPhotographPatternsFlightDataBatsSidewaysGaugesCollideBlind Side Author:Marcus Sakey