Brunsdale Baseball Quotes

My favorite urban flower, the baseball box score ~ Roger Angell

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball. ~ Carlos Delgado

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. ~ Mickey Mantle

Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard. ~ Donald Hall

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs. ~ Pat Gillick

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me. ~ Bill Veeck

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset. ~ Curt Schilling

The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed. ~ Bob Uecker

I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK) ~ Woody Allen

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues. ~ Bob Feller

It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game. ~ Roger Kahn

You get what you earn. ~ Paul Konerko

The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still ruin expensive suits going after foul balls that cost five dollars. Hitting streaks still make the network news and hot dogs still taste better at the ballpark than at home. ~ Duke Snider

I go to the gym in a baseball cap, sweats and then run into a boy I like. It happens - so what? ~ Azita Ghanizada

Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company." Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies. ~ Fulton J. Sheen

Kay was only half skinny-dipping, but she fervently wished she'd worn something a bit more substantial than a baseball cap and the bottom half of the quintessential teeny-weenie yellow polka-dot bikini. ~ Babette James

Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair and ruddy skin that burns at the beach. A bundle of appetites. A full, boisterous guffaw; a man who tells knock know jokes. Hot dogs - not even East 86th Street bratwurst but mealy, greasy big guts that terrifying pink. Baseball. Gimme caps. Puns and blockbuster movies, raw tap water and six-packs. A fearless, trusting consumer who only reads labels to make sure there are plenty of additives. A fan of the open road with a passion for his pickup who thinks bicycles are for nerds. Fucks hard and talks dirty; a private though unapologetic taste for porn. Mysteries, thrillers, and science fiction; a subscription to National Geographic. Barbecues on the Fourth of July and intentions, in the fullness of time, to take up golf. Delights in crappy snack foods of ever description: Burgles. Curlies. Cheesies. Squigglies - you're laughing - but I don't eat them - anything that looks less like food than packing material and at least six degrees of separation from the farm. Bruce Springsteen, the early albums, cranked up high with the truck window down and your hair flying. Sings along, off-key - how is it possible that I should be endeared by such a tin ear?Beach Boys. Elvis - never lose your roots, did you, loved plain old rock and roll. Bombast. Though not impossibly stodgy; I remember, you took a shine to Pearl Jam, which was exactly when Kevin went off them...(sorry). It just had to be no ~ Lionel Shriver

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality. ~ Josh Henderson

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw. ~ Michael Lewis

Baseball really is a glorified game of throw and catch. And if you don't have guys who throw it really well, you can't compete for long. ~ Tucker Elliot

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip ~ Erma Bombeck

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~ Bryce Harper

If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager. ~ Lou Brock

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there. ~ Jon Bernthal

If it weren't for Jesus, I would not be where I am today and my life would be without purpose. I've heard kids say they want to be just like me when they grow up. They should know I want to be just like Jesus. ~ Albert Pujols

The National League is baseball to me. ~ Kerry Wood

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht. ~ Jimmy Cannon

I remember Liz, her face white, delicate as an ash on the wind; her red lips staining the cigarette; her full breasts under the taut black jersey. She said to me, "But think how happy you can make a man someday." Yes, I'm thinking, and so far it's all right. But then I do a flipover and reach out in my mind to E., seeing a baseball game, maybe, perhaps watching television, or roaring with careless laughter at some dirty joke with the boys, beer cans lying about green and shiny gold, and ash trays. I spiral back to me, sitting here, swimming, drowning, sick with longing. I have too much conscience injected in me to break customs without disasterous effects; I can only lean enviously against the boundary and hate, hate, hate the boys who can dispel sexual hunger freely, without misgiving, and be whole, while I drag out from date to date in soggy desire, always unfulfilled. The whole thing sickens me. ~ Sylvia Plath

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play. ~ Nikki Giovanni

In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it. ~ Mickey Mantle

You can learn a lot from a professional baseball player, if you can get one, which obviously you can't. ~ Dimitra Ekmektsis

I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something. ~ Carlos Beltran

Use emotional awareness and pay attention to your body - look [and locate] concrete physical sensations - like stabbing, aching, throbbing - and [distinguish and define them] by saying things like, "it is the size of a golf ball or it is the size of a baseball" - do whatever you can do to find painful physical sensations. ~ Gary Zukav

An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality. ~ Thomas Boswell

Ladies and gentlemen, the great number seven, Mickey Mantle. ~ Mel Allen

Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal. ~ Branch Rickey

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball. ~ Albert Pujols