Playing Baseball Quotes (page 4)

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• good
• baseball
• play

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it. Whitey Herzog

• life
• game
• baseball

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field. Juliana Hatfield

• basketball
• baseball
• hand

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. John Leonard

• baseball
• love
• play

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday. Bob Feller

• mother
• play
• hurt

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best. Rickey Henderson

• basketball
• sports
• school

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. Steven Chu

• play
• soccer
• football

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer. Scott Caan

• money
• baseball
• play

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that. George Brett

• life
• manly
• tears

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life. Brooks Robinson

• winning
• game
• baseball

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose. Derek Jeter

• sports
• play
• fish

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature. Robert Redford

• personal
• baseball
• personality

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon. Frank Zappa

• red
• kids
• smoking

I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Michael Chabon

• baseball
• deep
• sports

That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down stories of bonehead plays and swirling brawls, the pitching duels that carried into twilight, stories that Marvin had been collecting for half a century--the deep eros of memory that separates baseball from other sports. Don DeLillo

• game
• gentleman
• baseball

When I began playing the game, baseball was as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. Ty Cobb