Baseball Quotes

Baseball wasn't easy for me.
Ryne Sandberg

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.
Leigh Steinberg

Kid, Favorite, Clearly

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.
Bob Uecker

Proud, Playing, Kid

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.
Bob Uecker

Done, Working, Far

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
Bob Uecker

After, Else, Wanted

I was acting when I was playing baseball.
Bob Uecker

Acting, Playing

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
Bob Uecker

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.
Kurt Russell

Serious, Acting

I just want to play baseball.
David Ortiz

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.
Jim Fowler

Play, Keep, Used

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
John Thorn

Business, Game, Control

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
John Thorn

Hope, Powerful, Past

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
John Thorn

Game, Young, Again

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.
John Thorn

Dream, Few, Playing

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
John Thorn

History, Team, Won

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
John Thorn

Happen, Two, Before

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
John Thorn

Great, History, Game

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.
Brady Anderson

Life, Mind, Bad

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
Bradley Whitford

Good, Looks, Player

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Branch Rickey

Truth, Sports, Game

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Ty Cobb

War, Down, Heavy

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
Ty Cobb

Love, Money, Great

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Jacques Barzun

Mind, Heart, America

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.
Nick Offerman

Dad, Basketball, Him

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
Sydney Madwed

Words, Used, Bats

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
Barry Bonds

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
Evan Bayh

Experience, Fun, May

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.
Jennie Finch

Women, Amazing, Basketball

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.
Luke Scott

Him, Another, Golf

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.
Jamie Moyer

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