130 quotes found
“Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]”
“One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the be...”
“You didn't play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you're going to make it with one? "If you're just going to tell me what I can't do, you can leave.”
“The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard.""Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"-Joe DiMaggio”
“Italian-Americans in New York had not been in much of a flag-waving mood prior to DiMaggio's arrival. By the All-Star break, the rookie had established himself as a wonderful player (.358, 10HR, 60...”
“Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech a slightly elevated and concentrated form.”
“They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.”
“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.”
“God what an outfield,' he says. 'What a left field.' He looks up at me, and I look down at him. 'This must be heaven,' he says.No. It's Iowa,' I reply automatically. But then I feel the night rubbi...”
“The walk-off win provides one of baseballs most thrilling outbursts, launching a couple dozen tense teammates out of the dugout into a frenzied mosh pit of elation.”
“Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip”
“Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.”
“My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.”
“I've got a Don Baylor," J.T. said."California sucks this year."Ralph snickered. "I wouldn't use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street.”
“The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about b...”
“You’re not going to always hit a home run in life. You’re going to strike out! You’re going to walk to the dugout of life, frustrated, while spectators chirp your name in judgment. They’re afraid t...”
“Sometimes a strikeout means that the slugger’s girlfriend just ran off with the UPS driver. Sometimes a muffed ground ball means that the shortstop’s baby daughter has a pain in her head that won’t...”
“That's sounds right. Another $5,000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like he paid off the MORTAGE on his parents' home, which wasn't that much.”
“Baseball isn't just a game. It's life being played out on a field—a field of dreams—on diamonds of green, where players pursuing their dreams try to be the best they can be on the grandest stage of...”
“He’s letting me see the real him, something he doesn’t allow a lot of people to see.”
