Playing Baseball Quotes

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  • As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.

    Baseball   Yankees   Long  
  • When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that's why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn't fall asleep. That gift I have still.

    Baseball   Fall   Kids  
  • Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

    "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.
  • Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

    "Tennis champion Jimmy Connors". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.
  • If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

    FaceBook post by Derek Jeter from Aug 29, 2012
  • A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

    Baseball   Ideas   Bats  
  • The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

    Sports   Baseball   Play  
  • Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

  • I did a lot of bad stuff from the age of 18 to 21. Those are days when everyone is usually in college doing a lot of stupid things. But since I was playing baseball, I was in the spotlight. I take full responsibility for doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. And I appreciate the second chance that the Twins are giving me.

  • If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

    Sports   Baseball   Crazy  
  • I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second. If I could even do that in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball. I don't miss the crowds or the travel or even being in the big leagues. I just miss being able to take batting practice and being able to swing as hard as I can. That's all I miss.

    Source: dynamic.espn.go.com
  • There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

    Baseball   War   Stories  
  • If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

  • It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

    Baseball   Fun   Men  
  • Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

  • When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

    Baseball   Fun   Struggle  
    Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press
  • I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second.

    Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com
  • I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

  • Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.

  • When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.

    Source: uproxx.com
  • I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.

    "Curt Schilling Says He Lost $50 Million on Video Game Company" by Ben Forer, abcnews.go.com. June 22, 2012.
  • I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.

    Baseball   League   Enjoy  
  • It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

    Sports   Baseball   Games  
    Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.42, U of Nebraska Press
  • While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

    Baseball   Song   Writing  
  • Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

    Baseball   Mean   Years  
  • Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

    Mom   Baseball   Dream  
  • I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

    Mom   Baseball   Jobs  
  • How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.

    Joe Pepitone (2015). “Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

    Baseball   Fun   Play  
    Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press
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