Baseball quotes

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◆ Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Babe Ruth100

◆ Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off, the right pitch will come and when it does be prepared to run the bases.

- Sara Ann Nielsen100

◆ Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

- Jim Bouton99

◆ The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

- Jackie Robinson99

◆ If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

- Babe Ruth99

◆ Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

- Jackie Robinson99

◆ I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

- Walt Whitman99

◆ 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 Hornsby99

◆ Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.

- Wes Westrum99

◆ Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

- Yogi Berra99

◆ I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

- Carl Yastrzemski99

◆ Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

- Jim Murray99

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

- Gaylord Perry99

◆ One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

- Nolan Ryan99

◆ Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

- Yogi Berra99