#spring training

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#before #death #game #i #pitch

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. ↗

— Sandy Koufax

#baseball #being #necessary #never #people

I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#cursed #doing #fundamentals #hate #i

I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet. ↗

— Pee Wee Reese

#dodgers #enough #five #foot #four

The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball. ↗

— Jim Evans

#best #cities #considered #florida #great

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place. ↗

— Bobby Bonilla

#clicked #everything #fell #get #into

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll. ↗

— Harry Caray

#fans #get #gonna #good #good times

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

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street. ↗

— Bud Selig

#get #guys #hurt #injured #mean