Baseball Quotes: Wisdom and Wit from the World of Baseball (Page 7)

"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, Businessman

"Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance"

Al Spalding, Athlete

"There is but one game and that game is baseball"

John McGraw

"You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens"

Mike Quade, Coach

"Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become"

Mary McGrory

"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round"

Gaylord Perry, Athlete

"If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black"

Mike Schmidt, Athlete

"I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot"

Mark McGwire, Athlete

"Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast"

Joe Garagiola, Athlete

"The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game"

Al Spalding, Athlete

"Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball"

Gaylord Perry, Athlete

"God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise"

Shoeless Joe Jackson, Athlete

"There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all"

Lou Gehrig, Athlete

"The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry"

Curt Flood, Athlete

"It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball"

Curt Flood, Athlete

"Baseball is a man maker"

Al Spalding, Athlete

"I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year"

Mark McGwire, Athlete

"I went through baseball as "a player to be named later.""

Joe Garagiola, Athlete

"It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore"

Harmon Killebrew, Athlete

"I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player"

Roberto Clemente, Athlete

"Baseball has been very good to me"

Roberto Clemente, Athlete

"I love the game of baseball"

Nomar Garciaparra, Athlete

"You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody"

Trey Parker, Artist

"Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game"

Ted Williams, Athlete

"Baseball was the darling of all sports back then"

Marion Motley, Athlete

"The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.""

Malcolm Gladwell, Author

"Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame"

Wade Boggs, Athlete

"The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia"

Sparky Anderson, Coach

"Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet"

Sparky Anderson, Coach

"Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life"

Connie Mack, Businessman

"I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken"

Martha Stewart, Entertainer

"Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball"

Roger Clemens, Athlete

"I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys"

Catherine Bell, Model

"Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America"

Bruce Catton, Historian

"Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times"

Bob Uecker, Athlete

"Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball"

Roger Maris, Athlete

"If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game"

Rickey Henderson, Athlete

"It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round"

Rafer Johnson, Athlete

"They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick"

Mike Quade, Coach

"The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it"

Ty Cobb, Athlete

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