All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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 ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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.
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.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
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