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Baseball Quotes

This guy can’t hit it! He swings like my grandmother! Sorry, Grandma…it was just an expression.

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.

‘Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he’s a gambler.’ Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: ‘He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.’
‘Fixed the World’s Series?’ I repeated….’Why isn’t he in jail?’
‘They can’t get him, old sport. He’s a smart man.’

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby. Chapter 4, there may not be a place in the ‘New America’ for pure-hearted dreamers like Gatsby, but there is for corrupt criminals like Meyer Wolfsheim.

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

– Hugo Chavez

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn’t have that experience.

– Hillary Clinton

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

– Gaylord Perry

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

– Hunter S. Thompson

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

– Hank Aaron

There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.

– Hack Wilson

Our economics are not baseball’s economics. Our game is not baseball’s game. Our owners are not baseball’s owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball’s union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

– Gary Bettman

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

– Hank Aaron

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

– Gaylord Perry

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.

– Gene Mauch

I don’t like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

– Harrison Ford

In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.

– Harmon Killebrew

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

– H. L. Mencken

I don’t care about the internal political system of the United States. I want to be a friend of United States, of its baseball, its institutions, its rock and roll, its workers, and its technology because we need it. I want to be friends of the Arab people, of the Persian people, of the Asian people.

– Hugo Chavez

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

– Harmon Killebrew

When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those younger than myself played in the second, and those still younger in the third, and I played with them.

– Heber J. Grant

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

– Herbert Hoover

The thing I like about baseball is that it’s one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it’s your mistake. If you hit a home run, it’s your home run.

– Hank Aaron

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It’s very thin, it’s made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

– Harlan Coben

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom’s apple pie.

– Harry Reasoner

The great thing about baseball is there’s a crisis every day.

– Gabe Paul

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

– H. G. Bissinger

The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

– Joe Montana

When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is ‘all the hot dogs you can eat’; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.

– Jose Andres

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball’s profitability by ‘running the game like a business.’

– John Thorn

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it’s a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can’t when it’s close.

– John Podhoretz

Don’t try to tell Namath’s people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don’t even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

– Jimmy Breslin

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

– Ichiro Suzuki

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