basketball quotes by TOMMY TUNE-1460873793
I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.
basketball quotes by FROM A CHARLES BARKLEY COMMERCIAL FOR BASKETBALL SHOES-1460865979
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
basketball quotes by TOM TOLBERT-1460830009
I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
basketball quotes by DAVE BARRY-1460828498
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
basketball quotes by JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN-1460818636
When it's played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.
basketball quotes by BOBBY KNIGHT-1460815555
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.
basketball quotes by BILL VAUGHN-1460813813
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
basketball quotes by ABE LEMONSSOUTH PACIFIC. ~CHARLEY ECKMAN (QUOTED IN BS)-->-1460792578
There are really only two plays:Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
basketball quotes by DICK VERTLEIB-1460790909
This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.
basketball quotes by JAMES NAISMITH-1460745480
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief."
baseball quotes by WILLIAM C. FEATHER-1460743979
A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
baseball quotes by ANDRE DAWSON-1460742337
The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.
baseball quotes by BOB SARLETTE-1460739433
You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning.
baseball quotes by ROGER SIMON-1460737254
Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel.
baseball quotes by BRANCH RICKEY-1460701797
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
baseball quotes by RON SHELTON-1460696217
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.
baseball quotes by SANDY KOUFAX-1460658213
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
baseball quotes by BILL VEECK-1460655429
I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
baseball quotes by GABE PAUL-1460654028
The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.
baseball quotes by HERBERT H. PAPER-1460650289
It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL!
baseball quotes by JOHN FOWLES-1460646083
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.
baseball quotes by ROBERT BENCHLEYTHE BASEBALL READER-1460623397
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.
baseball quotes by SHARON OLDS-1460617426
Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.
baseball quotes by DICK GREGORY-1460616075
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
baseball quotes by TRADITIONAL GAG NOTICE HUNG IN OFFICES AND FACTORIES AT A TIME PERIOD WHEN ALL GAMES WERE PLAYED DUR-1460614544
All requests for leave of absence on account of grandmother's funeral, sore throat, housecleaning, lame back, turning of the ringer, headaches, brain storm, cousin's wedding, general ailments or other legitimate excuses must be made out and handed to the boss not later than 10 a.m. on the morning of the game.
baseball quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1460569206
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
baseball quotes by LARRY ANDERSON-1460567526
Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?
baseball quotes by RAY MILLER-1460565795
[L]ike those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there.
baseball quotes by ROGER KAHNAMERICAN SCHOLAR-1460549818
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
baseball quotes by MARK KRAMER-1460545526
Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average.
baseball quotes by STAN ISAACS-1460541745
I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports.
baseball quotes by MICKEY MANTLE-1460540084
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
baseball quotes by ERNIE HARWELL-1460534155
Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion.
baseball quotes by THOMAS BOSWELL-1460532824
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
baseball quotes by PETE HAMILL-1460531393
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
basketball quotes by BOBBY KNIGHT-1460529180
You don't play against opponents. You play against the game of basketball.
basketball quotes by DARRYL DAWKINS-1460527859
When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.
basketball quotes by CHARLES BARKLEY-1460525289
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
basketball quotes by GEORGE RAVELING-1460523766
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.
basketball quotes by RED AUERBACH-1460522326
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
baseball quotes by PAT CONROY-1460520454
Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
baseball quotes by TALLULAH BANKHEAD-1460518882
There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
baseball quotes by RICHARD GILMAN-1460478679
Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.
baseball quotes by GEORGE FOSTER-1460472595
I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out.
baseball quotes by RAY FITZGERALD-1460471146
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
baseball quotes by BILL VEECK-1460469769
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
baseball quotes by THOMAS BOSWELL-1460468397
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.
baseball quotes by ALVIN DARK-1460450074
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
baseball quotes by BRENDAN FRANCIS-1460448540
A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves.
baseball quotes by BILL VEECK-1460447329
That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball.
baseball quotes by ARTHUR DALEY-1460444539
A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more.
baseball quotes by STEVE BUSBY-1460442810
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.
baseball quotes by SAUL STEINBERG-1460439831
Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem.
baseball quotes by MICKEY MANTLE-1460436370
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
baseball quotes by MIKE ROYKO-1460434452
It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.
baseball quotes by EARL WEAVER-1460430186
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.
baseball quotes by CASEY STENGEL-1460399448
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
baseball quotes by JIM MURRAY-1460397846
Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.
baseball quotes by NORM CASH-1460396421
Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.
baseball quotes by LEO DUROCHER-1460356709
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
baseball quotes by TOMMY LASORDA-1460355109
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
baseball quotes by BOB LEMON-1460351967
I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen.
baseball quotes by THE VILLAINS IN BLUE-1460350227
Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.
baseball quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1460348786
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
baseball quotes by ATTRIBUTED TO BOTH JOE ADCOCK AND CURT SIMMONS-1460310752
Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.
baseball quotes by WAITE HOYT-1460298358
Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them how to say: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth has upped Daddy's paycheck by
baseball quotes by BILL VEECK-1460296829
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.
baseball quotes by JOE DIMAGGIO-1460291194
A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
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