Baseball quotes.pdf - Baseball Excellence
Baseball quotes.pdf - Baseball Excellence Baseball quotes.pdf - Baseball Excellence
"All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit." - Dave Winfield "Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman "I slept a real sleep last night for the first time in many a night. When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it." - Joe Wood, on the Cleveland Indians 1920 pennant race "We hit the ball right where they could show off their defensive ability." - Earl Weaver (Baltimore Orioles manager), after the Orioles lost the 1969 World Series to the Mets. "I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded." - Earl Weaver, replying to a religious member of the Orioles who had said: "Gee, Earl, you got to walk with the Lord." "Ecomonics played a role in coming back, sure it did. Ralieghs have gone from $6.50 a carton to $9. But they have these coupons on the back. You get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough once and got Al Bumbry." - Earl Weaver "You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." - Earl Weaver "My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get ahold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'" - Earl Weaver "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." - Earl Weaver "When you think about it, a home run is a mistake. The idea is to hit the ball hard, on a line, so the defense can't react to it. Hit it high in the air, which is how most home runs are hit, and most of the time it will be caught. It's a mistake." - Matt Williams, Indians third baseman, always a threat to make a mistake "When my career is over, and I sit down at the gas station or wherever, and people ask me, 'What was one of your biggest moments?' I'll say, 'Facing Nolan Ryan.'" - Glenn Wilson "What can you say about Mickey after you say he was one of the greatest? He had talent he didn't realize he had. If he had [Joe] DiMaggio's serious bear-down attitude, there's no telling how great he could have been. With his one good leg, he could outrun everyone." - Gene Woodling on former teammate Mickey Mantle
"Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible." - Boston's Carl Yastrzemski "[The 1892 Cleveland Spiders are] highly successful in the manufacture of nothingness, surrounded by an elliptical fence." - Unknown Rex Barney would have been the greatest pitcher of all time if the strike zone was high and outside." - Unknown Rex Barney could throw a baseball through a brick wall if he could hit the brick wall. - Unknown Ueuker "Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat." "If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter." "In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the Bigs." "I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for $3,000. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up." "People don't know this but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it." "The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud." "I had slumps that lasted into the winter." "I led the league in 'Go get 'em next time.'" "I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed." "Career highlights? I had two. I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets."
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"All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit." -<br />
Dave Winfield<br />
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed<br />
rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman<br />
"I slept a real sleep last night for the first time in many a night. When I wasn't<br />
lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I<br />
was dreaming restless dreams about it." - Joe Wood, on the Cleveland Indians<br />
1920 pennant race<br />
"We hit the ball right where they could show off their defensive ability." - Earl<br />
Weaver (Baltimore Orioles manager), after the Orioles lost the 1969 World Series<br />
to the Mets.<br />
"I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded." - Earl Weaver, replying to a religious<br />
member of the Orioles who had said: "Gee, Earl, you got to walk with the Lord."<br />
"Ecomonics played a role in coming back, sure it did. Ralieghs have gone from<br />
$6.50 a carton to $9. But they have these coupons on the back. You get all kinds<br />
of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough once and got Al<br />
Bumbry." - Earl Weaver<br />
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock.<br />
You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his<br />
chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." - Earl Weaver<br />
"My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like<br />
'C'mon Boog,' 'Get ahold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'" - Earl Weaver<br />
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." - Earl Weaver<br />
"When you think about it, a home run is a mistake. The idea is to hit the ball hard,<br />
on a line, so the defense can't react to it. Hit it high in the air, which is how most<br />
home runs are hit, and most of the time it will be caught. It's a mistake." - Matt<br />
Williams, Indians third baseman, always a threat to make a mistake<br />
"When my career is over, and I sit down at the gas station or wherever, and<br />
people ask me, 'What was one of your biggest moments?' I'll say, 'Facing Nolan<br />
Ryan.'" - Glenn Wilson<br />
"What can you say about Mickey after you say he was one of the greatest? He<br />
had talent he didn't realize he had. If he had [Joe] DiMaggio's serious bear-down<br />
attitude, there's no telling how great he could have been. With his one good leg,<br />
he could outrun everyone." - Gene Woodling on former teammate Mickey Mantle
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