Best baseball & mind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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 has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.”

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Author:Daniel Ortega

“When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to.”

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Author:Mo'ne Davis

“Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.”

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Book:Trainspotting

Source: Trainspotting

“Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“[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

“Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.”

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Author:Aidan Quinn

“Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, football?... It's politics. That's right, politics. Millions and millions of people following it every day in the newspapers, over the TV and the radio. Now mind you, they wouldn't get mixed up in this themselves for all the tea in China, but they know the names and numbers of all the players. And what they can't tell the coaches about strategy. Oh, you should see some of the letters I get.”

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Author:Frank Nugent

“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.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.”

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Author:Eric Davis

“You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.”

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Book:The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History

Source: The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History

“Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.”

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Author:George Pataki

“For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.”

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Author:John Malkovich

“I don't watch teams other than Dodgers on TV and I watch the Dodgers games sparingly. I like to refresh my mind at night, so I like to read. For me, watching baseball at night, it would be like an insurance man reading actuary tables. I like to escape.”

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Author:Vin Scully

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.”

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Author:Jacques Barzun

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Liza Minnelli

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.”

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Author:Rogers Hornsby

“Baseball is dull only to dull minds.”

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Author:Red Barber

“Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.”

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Author:Leon Brown

“Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.”

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Author:George Will

“Baseball is a sport where being stupid and keeping things really simple a lot of times is the right way to do things. There are very few guys that are capable of processing a lot of information and applying it and still being good at it. … I don't want to name names, but there were guys I played with that were so stupid that they're really good, because their mind never gets in the way.”

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Author:Zack Greinke

“Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.”

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Author:Sparky Anderson

“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.”

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Author:Mike Schmidt

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