#lay

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#ball #begin #bouncing #boy #cannot

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#first #his #looks #regards #spring

All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#angry #asking #awards #baseball #baseball players

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do. ↗

— Gene Mauch

#more #players #realize #than #thing

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#being #career #center #change #changed

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum. ↗

— Brian May

#create #important #music #our #play

There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#come #comes #days #gonna #i

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days. ↗

— Willie Mays

#black #days #i #lot #making

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into. ↗

— Martina McBride

#because #brother #country #country music #dad

I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess. ↗

— Melissa McCarthy

#certainly #characters #confident #i #i love