Knickers Baseball Quotes

Rose worked and played so hard that kids all across the country - not just in Cincinnati - were emulating him on sandlots everywhere, proud to dirty their jerseys doing a headfirst "Pete Rose" dive into cardboard boxes used for bases ... whether they needed to slide or not. ~ Tucker Elliot

I watch baseball on TV like my cat watches the window. Somebody open the blinds so we can see better! ~ Jarod Kintz

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. ~ Bill Vaughan

I've always been a great lover of baseball. ~ Peter Lynch

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable. ~ Branch Rickey

I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to. ~ Buddy Guy

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick. ~ Thomas Boswell

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat. ~ Walt Alston

Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals. ~ Stan Musial

George Bowering doesn't play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun. ~ Robert Kroetsch

No former player has owned a team in baseball. ~ Derek Jeter

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard. ~ Warren Buffett

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

It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins. ~ W.P. Kinsella

When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times. ~ Vladimir Guerrero

Baseball regards us as sheep. ~ Curt Flood

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money. ~ Joe Torre

Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine ~ Alan Gratz

I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person. ~ Troy Glaus

Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols ... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it. ~ Russell Baker

Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game of baseball. ~ Andrew McCutchen

Thank God for baseball. ~ Mickey Mantle

When you're famous you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full Madonna kit - it doesn't work: my stupid face is too big ~ Noel Fielding

I enjoy talking pitching and talking baseball. And I don't have all the answers. I don't claim to, but I'm more than happy to share my beliefs. ~ Roy Halladay

People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more. ~ Bill Veeck

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball. ~ Maggie Lawson

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks. ~ Jimmy Buffett

The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century. ~ Tom Trebelhorn

His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread. ~ Tom Hayden

Orioles fought with tigers, blue jays battled against angels, bear cubs warred with giants, and none of it made any sense. A baseball player was a man, and yet once he joined a team he was turned into an animal, a mutant being, or a spirit who lived in heaven next to God. According ~ Paul Auster

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

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~ Bryant Gumbel

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly. ~ Phil Jackson

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports. ~ Anthony Liccione

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do. ~ Harmon Killebrew

No matter what I do on the baseball field, no matter how hard I try to be a good player, no matter how hard I try to be a good father or a good husband, I can never do enough. I can never be perfect in this world. But God's there to tell me that it's not what you do, it's whom you believe in and it's Him loving me. ~ Mark Teixeira

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. ~ Yogi Berra

I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it. ~ Willie Mays

I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish. ~ Gabe Paul

I am convinced that being fully committed to the moment, without any worries about the past or projections into the future, is the best attribute a closer can have. You wonder why the shelf life of so many short relievers is, well, so short? Why guys can be unhittable for a year or two and then disappear? It's because it takes a ton of concentration, and self-belief, to stay in the moment in this way and not let the highs and lows mess with your psyche. ~ Mariano Rivera

Sandor Boatly had never guessed that, properly played, baseball consisted of mathematics, geometry, art, philosophy, ballet, and carnival, all intertwined like the mystical ribbons of color in a rainbow. ~ W.P. Kinsella

Bond went back to room 325 and poured himself two fingers of bourbon from his bottle and switched on the television while he waited for Delmont. He watched a game of baseball uncomprehendingly - the Senators versus the Royals - thinking that it made cricket seem exciting. ~ William Boyd

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks. ~ Stephen King

And to me, they gave a helmet of invisibility.
Sometimes my gift was called the "cap" of invisibility. Seriously? Caps are what baseball players wear. Caps are cute. Caps are silly. The king of the underworld does not wear a "cap". It's a helmet, people.
You wouldn't call Poseidon's trident a "shrimp fork," would you? Or Zeus's lightning bolts, "sparklers"? So don't let me hear you say "cap." Furthermore, I don't want to hear anything about some wizard-boy's "Cloak of Invisibility," either. Mine came first. ~ Vicky Alvear Shecter