Maya Angelou Quotes, Baseball Quotes, Long Quotes

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Baseball Quotes , Giving Quotes

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

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Tags : A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes , Baseball Quotes , Home Quotes

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Baseball Quotes , Mother Quotes

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Baseball Quotes , Things In Life Quotes

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Sports Quotes , Baseball Quotes

I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Baseball Quotes , Father Quotes

I'm not perfect. Nobody's perfect. But I love baseball and I love to play hard.

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Tags : Adrian Beltre Quotes , Baseball Quotes , Play Hard Quotes