Infield Quotes

#1. Every time we came back from a rough mission we had to shake up the line-up and twice we had to find a whole new infield. They had a hot club in our squadron once before, the best in the whole division and then they went to Schweinfurt.

Bert Stiles

#2. Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap.

Roger Angell

#3. Good afternoon ... My name is Lucy ... I'm going to be your right-fielder ... Our special today is a misjudged fly-ball. We also have a nice bobbled ground ball and an exellent late throw to the infield ... I'll be back in a moment to take your order.

Charles M. Schulz

#4. The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

Barry Zito

#5. My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.

Kevin Plank

#6. The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

W.P. Kinsella

#7. I played Little League. I was a 'pitcher.' But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an 'in-infield' shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn't hit, so that was pretty much my entire job.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#8. As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.

Bobby Wallace

#9. You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

Joe DiMaggio

#10. Something to keep in mind - it's raining lightly. The infield could be very wet on ground balls.

Tim McCarver

#11. I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.

Walter Alston

#12. No one had to tell me I was never going to be a home run hitter. I was hitting the same ball as the rest of the players, but when the big guys cracked one, it went out of the park. Mine went out of the infield.

Nellie Fox

#13. A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

Joe Morgan

#14. An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.

L. Frank Baum

#15. The sentence that best expresses a snail's way of life: 'The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#16. As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

Evelyn Underhill

#17. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana

#18. But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.

E. M. Forster

#19. She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba.

Junot Diaz

#20. If you fear to know the cost, the value will definitely be lost. Focus your attentions on the product, not the price.

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique,
who is your Beginning and your End.

Rumi

#22. Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Sorry, it's all those crossword puzzles I do. I love words ...

Dakota Cassidy

#24. The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source.

Clarence H. Burns

#25. Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?

Prince Philip