Baseball quotes.pdf - Baseball Excellence
Baseball quotes.pdf - Baseball Excellence
Baseball quotes.pdf - Baseball Excellence
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"Umpire's Heaven is a place where he works third base every game. Home is<br />
where the heartache is." - Ron Luciano<br />
"I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a<br />
bar along the way home." - Bob Lemon, New York Times, August 15, 1976<br />
"The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen." -<br />
Bob Lemon<br />
"They should move first base back one step to eliminate all those close plays." -<br />
John Lowenstein<br />
"October doesn't care what your name is." - Mike Lupica<br />
"I knew I was in for a long year when we lined up for the national anthem on<br />
opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I heard that song I have a<br />
bad game.'" - Pittsburgh Pirates manager Jim Leyland, 1986<br />
"The bases were drunk, and I painted the black with my best yakker. But blue<br />
squeezed me, and I went full. I came back with my heater, but the stick flares one<br />
the other way and chalk flies for two bases. Three earnies! Next thing I know,<br />
skipper hooks me and I'm sipping suds with the clubby." - Ed Lynch, Mets' pitcher<br />
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Quotes from Mike Marshall, Mark McGwire, Joe Magrane, Tug McGraw, Billy Martin,<br />
and more!<br />
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"Y is for Young, the magnificent Cy. People batted against him, but I never knew<br />
why." - Ogden Nash<br />
"When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and join the circus. With<br />
the Yankees, I've accomplished both." - Graig Nettles<br />
"It's a good thing Babe Ruth isn't here. If he was, George Steinbrenner would<br />
have him bat seventh and say he's overweight." - Graig Nettles<br />
"We've got a problem here. Luis Tiant wants to use the bathroom and it says no<br />
foreign objects in the toilet." - Graig Nettles<br />
"People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess<br />
people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down<br />
the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and<br />
gave me the finger." - Graig Nettles