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.
baseball quotes by RICK WISE-1460271382
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
baseball quotes by JERRY IZENBERG-1460269981
Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.
baseball quotes by A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI-1460266157
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
baseball quotes by JIM MURRAY-1460212267
The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash.
baseball quotes by BRUCE CATTON-1460140324
Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
baseball quotes by ROBERT FROST-1460139100
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
baseball quotes by BOB LEMON-1460135388
I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.
baseball quotes by JOE GARAGIOLA-1460133745
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
baseball quotes by JIM BOUTON-1460123339
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
baseball quotes by FROM THE MOVIEBULL DURHAM-1460122009
Strikeouts are boring - besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic.
baseball quotes by REGGIE JACKSON-1460106155
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.
baseball quotes by DON DRYSDALE-1460096048
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
baseball quotes by LAWRENCE RITTER-1460094507
The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.
baseball quotes by BOB VEALE-1460093117
Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.
baseball quotes by KEN HARRELSON-1460085475
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
baseball quotes by JIM MURRAYTHE BEST OF JIM MURRAY-1460084200
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
baseball quotes by WOODY ALLEN-1460052635
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
baseball quotes by HUMPHREY BOGART-1460051064
That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em.
baseball quotes by ART HILL-1460049684
With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.
baseball quotes by VANCE LAW-1460048182
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.
baseball quotes by ROGERS HORNSBY-1460041480
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
baseball quotes by NOMAR GARCIAPARRA-1460040003
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.
baseball quotes by GEORGE CARLIN-1460009234
Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.
baseball quotes by WILLIE STARGELL-1460007890
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
baseball quotes by WALT WHITMANBASEBALL: AN INFORMAL HISTORY-1460003318
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.
baseball quotes by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW-1459961665
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
baseball quotes by EARL WILSON-1459930913
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
baseball quotes by AL GALLAGHER-1459929632
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
baseball quotes by PAUL GALLICO-1459920067
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
baseball quotes by ROY CAMPANELLA-1459918341
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
baseball quotes by HUMPHREY BOGART-1459915004
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
baseball quotes by M*A*S*H-1459859153
A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.
baseball quotes by DAVE BARRY-1459857853
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
baseball quotes by TOM CLARK-1459847044
I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
baseball quotes by TED WILLIAMS-1459834676
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
baseball quotes by ROGERS HORNSBY-1459833104
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
baseball quotes by JIM BOUTON-1459793588
You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
babies quotes by MARTIN H. FISCHER-1459744605
God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics.
autumn quotes by ELIZABETH LAWRENCE-1459666825
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
autumn quotes by SAMUEL BUTLER-1459576714
Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
autumn quotes by NOVA BAIR-1459570483
October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.
autumn quotes by EMILY DICKINSON-1459530882
Besides the autumn poets sing,A few prosaic daysA little this side of the snowAnd that side of the haze.
autumn quotes by JOHN DONNE-1459448825
No spring nor summer beauty hath such graceAs I have seen in one autumnal face.
autumn quotes by THOMAS HOOD-1459398727
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!
autumn quotes by GEORGE ELIOT-1459335695
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
autumn quotes by P.D. JAMES-1459325136
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
autumn quotes by EDWIN WAY TEALE-1459318153
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
autumn quotes by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES-1459273634
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
attitude quotes by JOSEPH CAMPBELL-1459271953
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
attitude quotes by CHINESE PROVERB-1459263272
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
attitude quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1459258419
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
attitude quotes by CARRIE LATET-1459234341
You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one.
attitude quotes by A.A. MILNE-1459159773
"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "w
attitude quotes by JAMES WHISTLER-1459156869
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
attitude quotes by FREDERICK L. COLLINS-1459144751
There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."
attitude quotes by ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN-1459141488
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
attitude quotes by NICHOLAS CHAMFORT-1459077792
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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