#base

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#before #could #forced #found #i

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#afraid #ball #baseball #been #else

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#born #gift #given #god #instinctive

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#always #baseball #been #everything #life

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#baseball #eastman #first #job #narrator

If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland. ↗

— Peter Steele

#based #bound #brooklyn #care #due

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#agency #am #baseball #dead #free

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#baseball #beat #because #betting #gambling

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#based #because #call #constitution #coordinate

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#catcher #could #darn #fastball #handle