#baseball

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#automobile #baseball #evil #fans #follows

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ↗

— James Patrick Murray

#anywhere #ball #baseball #curve #except

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing. ↗

— David Ortiz

#baseball #be happy #doing #everything #game

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job. ↗

— Eric Davis

#i #i love #job #love

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits. ↗

— Frank Perdue

#dream #gathered #hits #i #more

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball. ↗

— Gaylord Perry

#baseball #down #going #handle #minors

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes. ↗

— Dan Rather

#back #ball games #baseball #bit #chair

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game. ↗

— Pete Rose

#baseball #bet #betting #different #even

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually. ↗

— Pete Rose

#does #fans #know #stupid #usually

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. ↗

— Mike Schmidt

#baseball #been #black #could #dirt