Best baseball & thinking 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

“I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.”

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Author:Joe Nichols

“They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.”

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Author:Mike Quade

“Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.”

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Author:Gail Simmons

“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

“You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.”

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Author:Cory Lidle

“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

“Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.”

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Author:James J. Kilpatrick

“I think Chairman Davis has said he would always prefer that baseball strengthens its own policies and not leave it to Congress to legislate. In the absence of any action, he believes Congress is ready to move forward.”

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Author:Robert J. White

“That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.”

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Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.”

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Author:Roberto Clemente

“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

“I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.”

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Author:Jennifer Garner

“Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.”

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Author:David Wright

“I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.”

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Author:Bengie Molina

“Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls.”

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Author:Patti Hansen

“There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.”

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Author:Alvin Dark

“I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.”

“Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

“This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.”

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Author:Don Zimmer

“I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.”

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Author:Alex Rodriguez

“If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“What do you think, I was born at 60?”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

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

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.”

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Author:Bob Costas

“I'm just worried about winning baseball. I'm only worried about what I can do to help the team win. It's about improving in every facet of the game. I think that's everyone's goals. Whatever we can do to help the team win is what we'll do. I think Andy has done a great job of coming in and helping our offense. AD is getting those pitchers ready. Coach Mainieri is going to coach up some wins this year. We are very excited and working on every facet of the game.”

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Author:Alex Bregman

“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

“Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.”

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Author:Michael Wilbon

“Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.”

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Author:Jackie Robinson

“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

“My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.”

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Author:Jim Leyland

“Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.”

“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

“In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.”

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Author:Joe Torre

“Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.”

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Author:Joe Torre

“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

“You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.”

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Author:Donald Hall

“Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.”

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Author:George Will

“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.”

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Author:Albert Belle

“In the past I've tended to overreact. I was sure I'd be a superstar by the time I was twenty-one. Baseball messed up my plan of life. When I fail I get upset. Sometimes I get upset too quickly, without thinking of consequences.”

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Author:Albert Belle

“There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.”

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Author:Jack Kirby

“Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.”

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Author:Jerry Coleman

“You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.”

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Author:Jerry Coleman

“I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.”

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Author:Jerry Coleman

“Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.”

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Author:Jerry Coleman

“I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?”

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Author:Chris Rock

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