Sunday 6 July 2008

Baseball sayings

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.- Bob Feller

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.- Bill Veeck

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.- Bryant Gumbel

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

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.- Rogers Hornsby

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.- Gaylord Perry

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

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be - in baseball and in life.- Pete Rose
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.- Anonymous

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.- Arthur Daley
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.- Jackie Robinson

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.- Paul Gallico

Sandy’s fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.- Jim Murray

When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.- Woody Allen

Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.- Wes Westrum

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.- Bob Lemon

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.- Phil Linz

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.- Lawrence Ritter

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.- Casey Dillon Stengel

Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.- Robert

I see great things in baseball. It’s our game, the American game.- Walt Whitman

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.- Robert Frost

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