Quotes on Baseball Player

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

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.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.

It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.