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Baseball Quotes

If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything.
  "Chris Chambliss"

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesite..........Yes.
 "Leo Durocher"

The game of baseball has always been linked in my mind with mystic texture of childhood, with the sounds and smells of summer nights and with the memories of my father.
"from the Boston Globe October 6, 1986 "Doris Kearns Goodwin"

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as someone else, but to be better. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
 "Ted Williams"

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
  "Hank Aaron" from the Milwaukee Journal July 1956

This is a simple game: you throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball. You got it.
 "Skip, from the movie Bull Durham"

Why do people sing "Take me out to the ball game" when they are already there ?
 "unknown"

That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to capistrano, but the sound of a bat on the ball.
 "Bill Veeck" 1976

Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.
 "Rocky Bridges"

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
                      "Sandy Koufax" Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher 1955-1966

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.
      "Nolan Ryan"

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.
                     "Mike Schmidt" Philadelphia Phillies third baseman 1972-88

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

We lost 13 straight one year. I decided if we got rained out, we'd have a victory party.
                   "Lefty Gomez" on managing in the minors

We made too many wrong mistakes.
     "Yogi Berra" his explanation for the yankee's losing the 1960 world series.

Hitting is timing, Pitching is upsetting timeing
   Warren Spahn"

There is NO crying in baseball
     "Tom Hanks" from the movie a league of there own