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"If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field" »Jim Boulton
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"If I ever become a mummy, I'm going to have it so when somebody opens my lid, a boxing glove on a spring shoots out." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"In baseball, you don't know nothing." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical." »Yogi Berra
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"baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." »Leo Durocher
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"Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously." »Sidney Madwed
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"The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five." »Jerry Coleman
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"baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical." »Yogi Berra
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"The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game." »Glenn Dickey
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"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." »Jacques Martin Barzun
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"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian." »H. L. Mencken
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"baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." »Pete Rose
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"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like." »Phyllis Diller
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"It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." »Hank Aaron
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"baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended." »George Bernard Shaw
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"(Speaking about Satchel Paige's pitching)It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate, it looks like a marble." »Hack Wilson
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"The reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year is they have the best home record in baseball." »Ralph Kiner
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"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
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"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball." »Gerald Early
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"Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either." »Jerry Coleman
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"baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game." »Rod Kanehl
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"If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes." »Mickey Spillane
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"baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off." »Bill Veeck
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"There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics." »Gregory Benford - Timescape
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"There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table." »Charlie Manuel
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"Mary I want a guy who can play 36 holes of golf, and still have enough energy to take Warren and me to a baseball game, and eat sausages, and beer, not lite beer, but beer. That's my ad, print it up." »There's Something About Mary
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"Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain." »Pierre Trudeau
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"I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us." »Walt Whitman
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