Baseball Quotes

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How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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"I love the HSBBW"

One last all time favorite!

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

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"I love the HSBBW"

'splain the last one please! Also, Big, you have a PM.

in a recent article on baseball america's site in which general managers were interviewed, a manager, while discussing talent said:

"it's not how good you are, it's how well you play."

A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
--Jim Bouton, NY Yankees

"Knowledge is Power. Power Corrupts.
Study Hard. Be Evil"

....bumper sticker on my daughter's car!

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From 'Nice Guys Finish Last' by Leo Durocher:

Baseball lives at the center of a never-flagging whirl of irreconcilable opinions.

The intelligence of any committee can be found by dividing the IQ of the least intelligent member by the number of people on the committee.
Robert Heinlein
(from memory so a few words are due to be wrong)

BigHit you are BAD!

"Nice Guys Finish Last"
Leo Durocher

Here are three that seem appropriate and one that I just like:

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." Mark Twain

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way" Babe Ruth (from my son's wall -- oops, he's a pitcher )

"The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again." from Field of Dreams

and finally,

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx

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Pay attention to the feedback that takes you where you want to go!

"When the brussel sprout fails to venture from it's lair,
it's time to roll a beaver up a grassy slope." ~ Popular Sceince about 35 years ago spoofing Confucious.

Don't know why I've always remembered that one.

"I've learned-that either you control your attitude or it controls you."

Not Baseball, but I like it:
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
~ Jim Valvano ~

Jax,

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"When the brussel sprout fails to venture from it's lair,
it's time to roll a beaver up a grassy slope." ~ Popular Sceince about 35 years ago spoofing Confucious.

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Don't talk about our team's mascot!


"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot."

Here are two that I like. The first is on a sign in the dressing room at my son's high school field. the second is on a poster hanging in his room.

"Good is never good enough when better is posible."

"Never let yesterday's disappointments overshadow tomorrow's dreams"

"Swing hard in case you hit something"

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You can drive that BMW into the gas station or you could be the person filling it up. It's up to you.

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Sirguy

"Ya gotta believe." -- the Tugger

I am a big quotes guy - I have my students interpret one as a starter activity every day in school.
Here are 5 that I love in dealing with baseball and athletics:

1- A coach is a person who makes people do what they don't want to do, so that they can be what they want to be!

2- Many a man has failed because his WISHBONE is where his BACKBONE should have been!

3- When your defining moment comes in life, either you define the moment or it defines you.

4- Baseball is the only game where a sacrifice is truly appreciated...and the only game where they keep track of it.

5- You can't build a reputation on what you're planning to do.

The Bouton quote from above is my favorite.
The baseball IQ of the fans at a ball game is usually inversally proportional to the price of their tickets, or something like that Bill Veek.
T-shirt I bought, 2 fingers facing up, "everyone wants peace," two fingers facing down, "nobody wants the deuce." The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain.
A hot dog at a ball park is better than a steak at the Ritz. Bogart. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him wear kneepads. Chuck Barris, Gong Show.

"Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young." - Roger Angell


"How can a guy win a game if you don't give him any runs?" - Robert "Bo" Belinsky, after losing a game 15-0


"It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can." - Joseph Anthony Dugan, NY Yankees 3B


Aw, how could he (Jorge Orta) lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico." Announcer Harry Carry

" It ain't over 'til it's over".
Yogi Berra

Great quotes. Keep them coming!

"speed has no slump..."

"You win or lose by the way you choose!"

"Why be ordinary when you ARE extraordinary?"
Both by baseballmom

The best baseball quotes are always by Yogi Berra!

"Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting."

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

"We're lost but were making good time."

"90% of the game is half mental."

"Always go to other people's funerals otherwise they won't go to yours."

"Little League baseball is a good thing 'cause it keeps the parents off the streets and it keeps the kids out of the house!"

and many many more!

"they can't hit what they can't see"

I have this one hanging in our batting cage at school, " I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." Peter Edward Rose.
"Pea at the knee." Satchel Paige
The greatest rag I ever heard happened in a college game. Playing a local rival and our coach brought in a reliever who was 5'6". As the coach left the mound from the other bench came "hey coach, you left your hat on the mound."

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Originally posted by luvbb:
"Ya gotta believe." -- the Tugger

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I remember a quote from a Met, who played on the team the following year. The team wasn't going so well and a reporter asked him ' What about Ya gotta believe".
THe guy replied, " I go by a different saying, Ya gotta perform"

on confidence:

the story goes that Ted williams was called up to the Boston Red sox from the minors. During BP, He is in the OF shagging flies with a friend of his . The friend sees Jimmy Foxx step up to the plate and he says to Williams, " Hey, wait'll you see Jimmie Foxx hit". to which Willaims replies " Yeah well, wait till Jimmy Foxx sees ME hit".

My son keeps a book of his favorite quotes... abd he puts his favorite in the brim of his hat at the start of the season. He takes a look at it often during the game. Thanks for adding to it. Here are a few of his favorites.

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." Eleanor Roosevelt

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. Colin Powell

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God...

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

How a man plays the game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Slumps are like a soft bed: Easy to get into hard to get out of...~ Johnny Bench

A full mind is an empty bat...~ Branch Rickey

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By the time you learn how to play the game...
You can't play it anymore ~ Frank Howard

You're in trouble now, I got a book of baseball quotes and quips for christmas

I'll do a couple every few days so as not to bore anyone

"I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it."
Sandy Koufax

"The best thing about baseball is you can do something about yesterday tomorrow"
Manny Trillo

"They throw the ball, I hit it; They hit the ball I catch it"
Willie Mays

Play every game as if it were your last

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Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey

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The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all pile into the car - I forget what kind it was - and drive and drive. I'm not sure where we'd go, but I think there were some trees there. The smell of something was strong in the air as we played whatever sport we played. I remember a bigger, older guy we called "Dad." We'd eat some stuff, or not, and then I think we went home. I guess some things never leave you.
-Jack Handey

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SNL is some great stuff.

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A sign my mom bought my husband and I when we got married 4 years ago..

"We interupt this marriage for baseball season"

We scheduled around the kids games and ended up doing it in the middle of the week so we didn't miss any.

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"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole."

"JustMom"

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball."--Pete Rose

"baseball does not build character, it reveals character"

"Life isn't like a box of chocolates...it's more like a jar of jalapenos.
What you do today, might burn your *** tomorrow."

"There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens."
Tommy Lasorda

"Its one thing to be considered a fool its another thing entirely to open your mouth a remove all dobt." Mark Twain

why baseball is better than golf, in golf you hit a ball and have to chase it.
Baseball you hit a ball and some one else chases it.

Don’t let your emotions interfere with your ability

"There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens."
Tommy Lasorda

bbfreak -

"He hit that ball so far it has meal service and flight attendants."

"That ball would have stayed in a lot of parks."
"Name one."
"Yellowstone."

"Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes, it rains."

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

"If you build it, ..."

"I did not bet on baseball..."

Wow, I guess I killed it.

Here's one from an unusual source:

"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like".
Phyllis Diller

"In the second grade they asked us what we wanted to be.I said a baseball player and they laughed.In the eighth grade they asked us what we wanted to be and I said a baseball player,they laughed again.In the eleventh grade they asked us what we wanted to be and I said a baseball player.They weren't laughing anymore."Johnny Bench "Everybody has the desire to win,few have the desire to practice to win"? "Figures don't lie,but liars can figure."?