#ports

The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard." "Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again" -Joe DiMaggio ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#joe-dimaggio #million-dollar-throw #sports #baseball

Cricket is baseball on Valium. ↗

— Robin Williams

#baseball

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action ↗

— John Irving

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I want to buy a sports car, because I like riding bicycles. Hold on to my handlebar mustache if you value your life.
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— Jarod Kintz

#life #mustache #non-sequitur #sports-car #value

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players. ↗

— W.P. Kinsella

#love

Players like rules. If they didn't have any rules, they wouldn't have anything to break. ↗

— Coach Lee Walls

#humor #sports #humor

I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#humor #sports #umpires #humor

I've fallen in love with baseball. ↗

— Nick Jonas

#humor #sports #humor

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game ↗

— Babe Ruth

#sports

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball. ↗

— Gloria Whelan

#imagination #organized-sports #play #recreation #sports