Baseball Quotes

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Here is some cool baseball quotes.I'll add more when I find them.

 

"In the beginning, there was no baseball. But ever since, there have been few beginnings as good as the start of a new baseball season. It is the most splendid time in sports."

-B.J. Phillips, TIME

 

"Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved."

-Red Smith, sportswriter

 

"Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself, but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run."

Branch Rickey, Dodgers General Manager

 

"No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined."

-Paul Gallico, sportswriter

 

"Baseball is democracy in action: In it all men are "free and equal," regardless of race, nationality, or creed. Every man is given the rightful opportunity to rise to the top on his own merits . . . It is the fullest expression of freedom of speech, freedom of press, and freedom of assembly in our national life."

-Francis Trevelyan Miller, author

 

"One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something."

-Nolan Ryan, pitcher

 

"No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body . . . As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications."

-Sadaharu Oh, outfielder

 

"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."

-Ted Williams, outfielder

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Heres a few more:

 

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and

just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn

plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is

the greatest game of them all.

- Earl Weaver

 

Any time you think you have the game conquered the game will

turn around and punch you right in the nose.

- Mike Schmidt

 

 

You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid.

You think something wonderful is going to happen.

-Joe DiMaggio, on Opening Day

 

 

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must

not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

-Albert Einstein

 

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

- Roberto Clemente

 

"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?"

Jim Bouton

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You forgot the greatest baseball philosopher of all time: Yogi Berra.

 

"It ain't over 'til it's over "

 

"Never answer an anonymous letter"

 

" I usually take a two hour nap from one to four"

 

" It's deja vu all over again"

 

" When you come to a fork in the road....Take it "

 

" I didn't really say everything I said "

 

" You can observe a lot by watching "

 

When asked what time is was......" you mean now?"

 

At Yogi Berra day in St Louis 1947 " I want to thank you for making this day necessary"

 

" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be "

 

Yogi on the 1969 NY Mets....." overwhelming underdogs "

 

" If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them "

 

On why NY lost the 1960 series to Pittsburgh " We made too many wrong mistakes"

 

" The future ain't what it used to be "

 

" It gets late early out here"

 

All quotes above from Yogi-berra.com.

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That Nolan Ryan quote is classic. Although he didn't say too much about baseball,

Yogi Berra come up with some classic quotes as well.