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Famous Baseball Quotes
"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher." - Ted Williams
"It was all I lived for, to play baseball." - Mickey Mantle
"God, I hope I wear this jersey forever." - Derek Jeter
"As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves." - Ken Griffey Jr.
"You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it." - Sammy Sosa
"I think there are some players born to play ball." - Joe DiMaggio
"I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." - Babe Ruth
"Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life." - Ty Cobb
"Always follow your dreams, don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something." - Alex Rodriguez
"I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better." - Barry Bonds
"The game's isn't over until it's over." - Yogi Berra
"Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy." - David Ortiz
"They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it." - Willie Mays
"I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him." - Hank Aaron
"You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be - in baseball and in life." - Pete Rose
"I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball." - Barry Bonds
"Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?" - A-Rod
"I come to play everyday." - David Ortiz
"Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world." - Babe Ruth
"Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball." - Mickey Mantle
"All pitchers are born pitchers." - Joe DiMaggio
"Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference." - Ty Cobb
"Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game." - Ted Williams
"All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good." - Babe Ruth
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra
"You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up." - David Ortiz
"One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something." - Nolan Ryan
"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting." - Hank Aaron
"We have a responsibility not just as atheletes, but as members of society to treat people well. To do things the right way." - Alex Rodriguez
"The crowd makes the ballgame." - Ty Cobb
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way" - Babe Ruth
"The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know." - Mickey Mantle
"Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!" - Ted Williams
"I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit." - David Ortiz
"Some things are meant to be and if it was, you will know it." - A-Rod
"I just swing hard in case I hit it -- that's it." - David Ortiz
"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." - Ted Williams
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
"I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything." - David Ortiz
"There is a difference between image and reputation. Image is nice, reputation is developed over an entire career. Reputation is what I'm searching for." - Alex Rodriguez
"It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't." - Barry Bonds
"Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher." - Ty Cobb
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be - in baseball and in life.
I'm just trying to work hard every day, trying to be a better player and one day, to be right there with them, one of those special hitters." - David Ortiz
"Leadership is a role you have to earn in order to be effective." - A-Rod
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