Baseball Passion Quotes

#1. Two kinds of selfish people: the unwise and the wise. Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy.

Pema Chodron

#2. Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for.

Dick Enberg

#3. I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

Alan Ritchson

#4. Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.

George Herbert

#5. To be strong doesn't fulfill your eagerness to win ...
add a piece of confidence..

Nathaniel E. Quimada

#6. Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#7. Fall seven times. Get up eight.

Nina Lane

#8. School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Robert C. Merton

#9. I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.

Woody Allen

#10. I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

Carlos Delgado

#11. The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job ... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#12. Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible
if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

Jack London

#13. Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Tom Yawkey

#14. A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.

Melanie Chisholm

#15. A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

Patrick O'Brian

#16. The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

George V. Higgins

#17. I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Brooks Robinson