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"When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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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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"I think Little league is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"The only thing Earl Weaver knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it." »Jim Palmer
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"I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important like a league game or something." »Dick Butkus
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"Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody." »Happy Gilmore
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"In baseball, you don't know nothing." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." »Leo Durocher
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"baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical." »Yogi Berra
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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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"Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously." »Sidney Madwed
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"baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical." »Yogi Berra
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"baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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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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"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." »Jacques Martin Barzun
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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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"baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended." »George Bernard Shaw
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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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"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like." »Phyllis Diller
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"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." »Pete Rose
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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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"(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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"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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"Sonny Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit Hah What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy league suit." »Godfather, The
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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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"I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National league. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched." »John K. Hutchens
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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'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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