#baseball

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. ↗

— Willie Mays

#also #baseball #business #combat #disguised

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball. ↗

— Willie Mays

#defense #key #me #playing

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit. ↗

— Willie Mays

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #became #before

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have. ↗

— Willie Mays

#baseball #being #business #business world #challenge

A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game. ↗

— Peter Ueberroth

#called #cloud #game #hangs #our

I wanted to play baseball! ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#i #play #play baseball #wanted

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#always #baseball #basketball #coach #excuse

I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#baseball #been #diehard #enjoy #fan

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. ↗

— John Thorn

#back #baseball #birth #booming #both

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year. ↗

— John Thorn

#between #day #game #heritage #hope