#baseball

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#around #baseball #baseball players #been #doubt

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

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. ↗

— Willie Mays

#basketball #because #black #college #could

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did. ↗

— Willie Mays

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #be yourself #business

I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game. ↗

— Willie Mays

#baseball #baseball game #become #could #down

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more. ↗

— Brian McBride

#because #between #came #deciding #down

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

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone. ↗

— Paul O'Grady

#anyone #baseball #cap #carriers #drivers

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. ↗

— Steven Chu

#baseball #basketball #children #developed #football

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#decency #lead #matters #race #should