#baseball

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

I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career. ↗

— Dontrelle Willis

#appreciative #baseball #career #competitive #consume

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#hockey #horseback #i #like #now

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#baseball #baseball game #game #i #music

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.' ↗

— Eric Alterman

#baseball #chain #financial #folks #food

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#baseball #better #had #heart #know

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#half #mental #ninety #other #percent

Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#half #mental #other #percent #physical

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#better #fittest #had #men #out

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