Braves Baseball Quotes

#1. Trying to eliminate worldly temptations
only makes our spiritual growth limited.

Toba Beta

#2. Cable TV brought the Braves into homes all across America in the 1970s, by the 1980s the Braves were "America's Team," and by the 1990s the Braves were the most dominant team in baseball.

Tucker Elliot

#3. I must let go of my need for the world to love me.

Kenny Loggins

#4. Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#5. I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

Franklin Pierce

#6. Chipper Jones will be in the Hall of Fame. The #1 overall pick in the 1990 draft, Chipper will be remembered as the greatest switch-hitting third baseman in baseball history.

Tucker Elliot

#7. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

Daniel H. Pink

#8. By any reasonable standard (i.e. he didn't cheat), Aaron is one of the greatest sluggers in baseball history - and there shouldn't even be a debate about who is baseball's true all-time home run champion (again, no cheating).

Tucker Elliot

#9. I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

Hank Aaron

#10. If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

Chuck Tanner

#11. I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.

Ashwin Sanghi

#12. Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.

Tommy Lasorda

#13. Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.

Jerry Coleman

#14. If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then we
must be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutches
of those who seek to exploit their weaknesses

Oche Otorkpa

#15. The career batting average (.254) during parts of five Major League seasons for Francisco Cabrera - which proves that it takes only one big hit, on the right stage, to become a legend. Cabrera is still honored in Atlanta, and rightfully so, for winning the 1992 NLCS vs. Pittsburgh.

Tucker Elliot

#16. The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this upbringing for them.

Tim Hudson

#17. Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home.

Doc Hastings

#18. Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life. She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.

Bob Hope

#19. Everything that flowers, dies too, but in its dying provides seed of a new beginning. - The Monk (Pg-50)

Shashi

#20. He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate from the rest of your life, but that didn't mean there'd be any way to keep from knowing it was there.

Richard Yates

#21. It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.

Brian Baumgartner

#22. Skip Caray was my favorite announcer as I grew up listening to the Braves on TBS and on the radio. One night, listening to a game that was headed into extra-innings, the broadcast was just breaking away to commercial when Skip said, 'Free baseball in Atlanta!' One of the best lines I've ever heard.

Tucker Elliot

#23. Besides, you're going to need all your strength tonight. I have many wicked plans for you."
"Good." Mac smiled up at her, pressing a kiss to the back of her hand. "Think we'll make it as far as the bedroom this time?"
"I was thinking the kitchen counter, but I'm flexible...

Courtney Hunt

#24. The game is always going to be bigger than the man and it doesn't matter what you are doing; records or whatever, somebody is just going to come along and break your records. But to achieve something that people would always look up to is something you will always appreciate.

Garfield Sobers