#baseball

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#cemetery #either #i #penitentiary

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. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#baseball #beautiful #beautiful things #come #down

Baseball life is a tough life on the family. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#baseball #family #life #life is a #tough

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#children #else #i #knew #life

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#after #always #baseball #designed #family

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#childhood #childhood dream #children #dream #feel

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#business #career #four #got #i

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

There is but one game and that game is baseball. ↗

— John McGraw

#game

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot. ↗

— Mark McGwire

#best #everybody #give #going #i