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I decided to pick out the greatest hitter to watch and study, and Jackson was good enough for me.
Babe Ruth1895–1948On Shoeless Joe Jackson, as quoted in “The Sportlight” by Grantland Rice, in The Daily Boston Globe (December 16, 1932), p. 40
- Baseball
Baseball always has been and always will be a game demanding team play. You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don’t play together the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth1895–1948“Chapter X,” Babe Ruth’s Own Book of Baseball (1928), p. 135; reprinted as “Babe Ruth’s Own Story — Chapter X: Great Individual Stars Worth Little Without Team Play; Signs and How They Operate, The Pittsburgh Press (January 18, 1929), p. 45
- Baseball
There are only two places in the league⁠—first place and no place.
Tom Seaver1944–2020
Racing, competing, is in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I’ve been doing it all my life. And it stands up before anything else.
Ayrton Senna1960–1994Interview at the 1989 Australian Grand Prix, November 1989
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Attributed in Colin Jarman, The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
- Baseball
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck1902–1968Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962), Pt. 4
- Football
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Casey Stengel1890–1975
- Baseball
- Sex
There was ease in Casey’s manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey’s bearing and a smile lit Casey’s face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt ’twas Casey at the bat.
Ernest Lawrence Thayer1863–1940Casey at the Bat (1888)In context
- Baseball
- Pride
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville⁠—great Casey has struck out.
Ernest Lawrence Thayer1863–1940Casey at the Bat (1888)In context
- Baseball
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismannborn 1949
- Football
- Genius
I was gonna rip his heart out. I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He’s no Alexander! I’m Alexander! I’m the best ever. I’m Sonny Liston. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s never been anyone like me. I’m from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I’m just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!
Mike Tysonborn 1966Interview with Jim Gray (2000).
My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
Mike Tysonborn 1966
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
?UnattributedOften credited to Mark Twain
There is no ‘I’ in ‘team.’
?Unattributed
This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn’t have spectators.
DVDick Vertleib
- Sex