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Baseball is like church.
Many attend, few understand.
?Leo Durocher
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't
know what a millionaire looked like.
?Phyllis Diller
Whoever wants to know the
heart and mind of America
had better learn baseball, the rules
and realities of the game.
?Jacques Barzun
A full mind is an empty bat.
?Branch Rickey
Baseball is almost the only place in life
where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
?Mark Beltaire
A great catch is like
watching girls go by,
the last one you see
is always the prettiest.
?Bob Gibson
Baseball is ninety percent mental.
The other half is physical.
?Yogi Berra
Baseball is a game of inches.
?Branch Rickey
Baseball players are smarter
than football players. How often
do you see a baseball team penalized
for too many men on the field?
?Jim Bouton
Close don't count in baseball.
Close only counts in
horseshoes and grenades.
?Frank Robinson
You gotta be a man to play
baseball for a living, but you
gotta have a lot
of little boy in you too.
?Roy Campanella
Every strike brings me closer
to the next home run.
?Babe Ruth
There are only five things you can
do in baseball: run, throw,
catch, hit and hit with power.
?Leo Durocher
I had only one superstition.
I made sure to touch all the
bases when I hit a home run.
?Babe Ruth
It took me seventeen years to get
three thousand hits in baseball. I did it
in one afternoon on the golf course.
?Hank Aaron
Poets are like baseball pitchers.
Both have their moments.
The intervals are the tough things.
?Robert Frost
Baseball is a game of race,
creed, and color. The race is
to first base. The creed is the
rules of the game. The color?
Well, the home team wears
white uniforms, and the
visiting team wears gray.
?Joe Garagiola
If you're not a member of a major
league baseball team, your errors,
unless they are truly spectacular, probably
don't show up in the morning paper.
?Jane Goodsell
Baseball is the only sport I know
that when you are on offense
the other team controls the ball.
?Ken Harrelson
Baseball ought never be hurried.
It is the only unhurried institution we have left,
which is one reason, I think, we love it.
?James Kilpatrick
Lady, I'm not an athlete.
I'm a baseball player.
?John Kruk
Playing baseball is not real life.
It's a fantasy world...
It's a dream come true.
?Dale Murphy
A baseball fan is a spectator sitting
500 feet from home plate who
can see better than an
umpire standing five feet away.
?Unknown
In the great department store of life,
baseball is the toy department.
?Unknown
Things could be worse.
Suppose your errors were
counted and published
every day, like those
of a baseball player.
?Unknown
