Best baseball & player 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

“Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.”

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Author:Dan Quisenberry

“I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.”

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Author:Daniel Sunjata

“I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.”

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Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.”

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Author:Muddy Waters

“Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.”

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Author:Stan Musial

“When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.”

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Author:Bruce Sutter

“I have never discussed a player contract with an agent and I like to think I never will.”

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Author:Walter O'Malley

“I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.”

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Author:Roberto Clemente

“When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.”

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Author:Roberto Clemente

“I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.”

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Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.”

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Author:Charlie Day

“commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.”

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Author:Bob Costas

“I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.”

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Author:Bryce Harper

“We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up.' We are professionals, we can do that without anybody telling us. I'm OK with it, but we need to do it on our own.”

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Author:Bengie Molina

“When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me. Not that I wouldn't rather make love, but the work has become a habit.”

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Author:Shel Silverstein

“It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.”

“It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.”

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Author:Joe Garagiola

“I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.”

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Book:Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

Source: Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

“I am and will always be just simply a basball player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.”

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Author:Jose Canseco

“Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.”

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Author:Paul Ormerod

“It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball.”

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Author:Jose Peralta

“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.”

“Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company." Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies.”

“I couldn't have done it without my players.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“I never saw a player who had greater promise.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.”

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Book:Casey at the Bat: The Story of My Life in Baseball

Source: Casey at the Bat: The Story of My Life in Baseball

“You're going to be a great player, kid.”

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Author:Jackie Robinson

“After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.”

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Author:Gabe Paul

“(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.”

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Author:Bill James

“I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“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

“I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.”

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Author:Alan Ritchson

“If you're a baseball player and you're on the mound, you don't ever want to look up in the stands if somebody is yelling at you, because they know they've got you. You just keep your head down, keep moving along. Of course it annoys you, but you don't ever show that it annoys you. Just go ahead, move on, and keep on playing.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.”

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Author:Jackson Browne

“That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.”

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Author:Ryan Guzman

“I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.”

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Author:Ryan Guzman

“I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.”

“I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.”

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Author:Ryne Sandberg

“I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.”

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Author:Joe Namath

“People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.”

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Author:Dennis Eckersley

“I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.”

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Author:Joe Torre

“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

“The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.”

“Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.”

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Author:George Vecsey

“All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.”

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Author:Tobin Bell

“I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.”

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Author:Bert Blyleven

“In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.”

Source: One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

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