#seb

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#baseball #moneyball #age

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#attendance #back #baseball #blind #blind eye

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#catch #fox #i #just #make

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids. ↗

— Andy Van Slyke

#answer #baseball #better #better player #bush

In spring training prior to his 1995 rookie season, Chipper was already so confident in who he was as a player that he famously deadpanned to veteran slugger Fred McGriff, after the Crime Dog grounded into an inning-ending double play, these two words: “Rally killer.” His confidence carried over to the field, just as it had since he began playing as a kid—he batted .265, and he led all rookies with 23 home runs, 87 runs, and 86 RBIs. Hideo Nomo was Rookie of the Year for the Dodgers, but Chipper and the Braves were World Champions. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#baseball #chipper-jones #home

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is! ↗

— Ted Williams

#baseball #better #bigger #future #game

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game. ↗

— Ted Williams

#any #baseball #been #game #hitter

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#been #desire #few #fit #found

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#sports #art

Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life. ↗

— Charles R. Sledge Jr.

#coaches #kids #parents #sports #attitude