Quotes About Baseball Boys

#1. Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

Bill Veeck

#2. Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

Herbert Hoover

#3. TRAVIS: I never said I like boys!
GORDO: Ever beat off to Penthouse?
TRAVIS: No.
GORDO: Ever collect baseball cards?
TRAVIS: No.
GORDO: How old is Barbra Streisand?
TRAVIS: 36. Three weeks ago.
GORDO:What do you need - a fucking blueprint?

Steve Kluger

#4. That boy Mantle is a good one.

Ty Cobb

#5. I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

Bryan Cranston

#6. A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

Tom Seaver

#7. Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Hillary Clinton

#8. Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.

Mary Blakely

#9. Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

Joe Schultz

#10. When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those younger than myself played in the second, and those still younger in the third, and I played with them.

Heber J. Grant

#11. He had a family in Lincoln, all the way clean over in Nebraska. He'd even showed her the pictures in his wallet of his kids, two little boys in baseball uniforms,

Justin Cronin

#12. I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

Catherine Bell

#13. I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.

Harry S. Truman

#14. When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.

Graig Nettles

#15. Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

Kenneth R. Miller

#16. Molly wondered if these boys really loved baseball, the sound and smell of it, the rhythm of it, the leather and wood, the grass and dirt, the story and surprise in a good game.

Mick Cochrane

#17. I went to a Christian all-boys' college one time to pick up my buddies so we could go play baseball, and I just remember walking through the halls, and there's all these crucified Jesuses. It's scary.

Evan Goldberg

#18. Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.

Dave Bristol

#19. I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.

Theodore Roosevelt

#20. after all these programs and scholarships, after all the work done by organized athletics at all levels, the number of boys actually playing baseball or football is far lower than before: no one is outdoors playing.

Anthony M. Esolen

#21. Her address book confirmed it, the pages inhabited equally by the living and the dead ... Each name called up raucous dinner parties and gin-and-tonics on sunny patios, lazy Saturday afternoons at the swim club, station wagons filled with noisy boys in polyester baseball uniforms.

Stewart O'Nan

#22. Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

Casey Stengel

#23. When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to.

Mo'ne Davis

#24. They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.

Tim Burton

#25. Way clean over in Nebraska. He'd even showed her the pictures in his wallet of his kids, two little boys in baseball uniforms, Bobby and Billy. So no matter how many times her father asked who the man

Justin Cronin

#26. Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

Aidan Quinn

#27. Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort.

Robert Lipsyte

#28. You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

Roy Campanella

#29. Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.

Branch Rickey

#30. You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

Dale Long

#31. In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.

Mickey Mantle

#32. You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

George Herman