#baseball

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#fun #game #longer

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#deal #different #football #know #opposed

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%. ↗

— Jim Evans

#call #field #happen #how #job

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become. ↗

— Mary McGrory

#become #football #were

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year. ↗

— Mark McGwire

#back #ballpark #baseball #been #coming

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#changes #gets #milder #through #years

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#concentrate #gotta #hitting #just #like

In spring training prior to his 1995 rookie season, Chipper was already so confident in who he was as a player that he famously deadpanned to veteran slugger Fred McGriff, after the Crime Dog grounded into an inning-ending double play, these two words: “Rally killer.” His confidence carried over to the field, just as it had since he began playing as a kid—he batted .265, and he led all rookies with 23 home runs, 87 runs, and 86 RBIs. Hideo Nomo was Rookie of the Year for the Dodgers, but Chipper and the Braves were World Champions. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#baseball #chipper-jones #home

Who is he anyhow, an actor?" "No." "A dentist?" "...No, he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated, then added cooly: "He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919." "Fixed the World Series?" I repeated. The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course, that the World Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as something that merely happened, the end of an inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people--with the singlemindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. "How did he happen to do that?" I asked after a minute. "He just saw the opportunity." "Why isn't he in jail?" "They can't get him, old sport. He's a smart man. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#black-sox #great-gatsby #faith

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. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#life #winning #life