Best baseball & should Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.”

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Author:Buzzie Bavasi

“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”

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Author:Norman Rockwell

“Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.”

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Author:Carlos Beltran

“I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?”

Source: Roger Ebert's video companion: 1996 edition

“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.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“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

“all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that without my personal renderings of all those games he missed while he was at work, he would be unable to follow our team in the only proper way a team should be followed, day by day, inning by inning. In other words, without me, his love for baseball would be forever incomplete.”

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Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

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Author:Aidan Quinn

“Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.”

Should Games Individual Baseball

Author:Pete Rose

“You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.”

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Author:Monte Irvin

“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

“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

“Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.”

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Book:Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in

Source: Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in

“Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.”

“Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand in the same batter's box as Teddy Ballgame, but also because a son might sit in the same wooden-slat seat as his father.”

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Book:Inside Baseball: The Best of Tom Verducci

Source: Inside Baseball: The Best of Tom Verducci

“The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.”

Should Games Baseball Adjustment

Author:Orel Hershiser

“I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)”

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Author:Woody Allen

“Major league baseball players and owners should meet immediately to enact the standards that apply to the minor leagues, and if they don't, I will have to introduce legislation that says professional sports will have minimum standards for testing. I'll give them until January, and then I'll introduce legislation.”

“I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until I was about sixteen, I thought I might have a shot as a major league baseball player. But once I hit my full adolescence I lost all interest in that. I discovered, in rapid succession, books, girls, alcohol and tobacco, and I've never turned back. Those are the four things I'm most interested in.”

“I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I do.”

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Author:Oliver Stone

“Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.”

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Author:Kid Rock

“With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.”

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Author:Pete Rose

“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”

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Author:Babe Ruth

“You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!”

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Author:Alex Trebek

“I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.”

“A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.”

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Author:Christy Mathewson

“What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.”

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Author:Duke Snider

“What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.”

“Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!”

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Author:Waite Hoyt

“A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.”

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Author:Joe Morgan

“They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays”

Should Play Moving Feet Baseball

Author:John Lowenstein

“When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.”

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Author:Jim Brosnan

“The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.”

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Book:The progress of the seasons: forty years of baseball in our town

Source: The progress of the seasons: forty years of baseball in our town

“England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.”

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Author:Robert Benchley

“Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.”

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Author:Bobby Bragan

“Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.”

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Author:Marsha Warfield

“Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.”

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Author:John Oliver

“The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.”

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Author:Willie Mays

“They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.”

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Author:George Will

“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.”

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