Baseball Quotes: Wisdom and Wit from the World of Baseball (Page 3)

"When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game"

"If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people"

"I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting"

Shemar Moore, Actor

"Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that"

John Malkovich, Actor

"So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press"

Roger Kahn, Writer

"When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade"

Ryan Sypek, Actor

"I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it"

Gerry Cooney, Athlete

"Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns"

John Leonard, Poet

"For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning"

Eddie Murray, Athlete

"The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball"

George Herman, Journalist

"Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started"

Ferguson Jenkins, Athlete

"Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"No, I've never played baseball in my life"

Jay Hernandez, Actor

"As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball"

Barry Bonds, Athlete

"Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits"

Frank Perdue, Businessman

"The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball"

Eddie Murray, Athlete

"The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered"

Lou Brock, Athlete

"You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement"

Mike Piazza, Athlete

"I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball"

Mike Piazza, Athlete

"You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it"

Lou Brock, Athlete

"I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

"Baseball is a team game"

Eddie Murray, Athlete

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