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A. Bartlett Giamatti1 quote
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. — A. Bartlett Giamatti · 1977Al Capone1 quote
What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man...a man stands alone at a plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Looks, throws, catches, hustles. Part of one big team. Bats himself the live-long day, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and so on. If his team don't field...what is he? You follow me? No one. — Al Capone · 1987Annie Savoy1 quote
Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate. — Annie Savoy · 1988Billy Beane1 quote
How can you not be romantic about baseball? — Billy Beane · 2011Bonnie Rayburn1 quote
No, I like baseball. I just never understood how you guys can spend so much time discussing it. I mean, I've been to games, but I don't memorize who played third base for Pittsburgh in 1960. — Bonnie Rayburn · 1991Ham Porter1 quote
You play ball like a girl! — Ham Porter · 1993Jim Bouton1 quote
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. — Jim Bouton · 1970Lou Gehrig1 quote
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. — Lou Gehrig · 1939Roy Campanella1 quote
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. — Roy Campanella · 1995Terence Mann1 quote
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come. — Terence Mann · 1989