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Baseball Quotes
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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. (Quote by - A. Bartlett Giamatti)
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. (Quote by - Rogers Hornsby)
Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The owner of the Philadelphia Phillies once remarked that he was going to write a book on how to make a small fortune in baseball. The first step , he said, was to begin with a large fortune. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology. (Quote by - Bernard Malamud)
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. (Quote by - Joe DiMaggio)
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything. (Quote by - Thomas Boswell)
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. (Quote by - Phyllis Diller)
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. (Quote by - Joe Garagiola)
It ain't nothin' till I call it. (Quote by - Bill Klem)
I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play. (Quote by - Buzzie Bavasi)
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games (Quote by - if you count exhibitions - and I'm overpaid! (Quote by - Johnny Bench)
Baseball is a man maker. (Quote by - Al Spalding)
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases. (Quote by - Rick Maksian)