Quotes About Defense In Baseball

#1. Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

Doug Harvey

#2. Your grace's words have been like manure spread on the barren ground of my dry and uncultivated mind.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#3. The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

Tony Randall

#4. Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Aristotle.

#5. The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

Neale Donald Walsch

#6. Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

Bill James

#7. It is of interest of times to change, Mr. Helecki. And it is the business of gentlemen to change with them.

Amor Towles

#8. What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

Phyllis McGinley

#9. There is no defense against a base on balls.

Joe Garagiola

#10. But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

George MacDonald

#11. No one loves the numbers more than I do, but numbers don't measure everything, especially when it comes to evaluating defense. And in the end, I am going to trust Buck Showalter's eyes more than a set of statistics devised by someone who never played the game.

Tim Kurkjian

#12. When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.

Phoebe Philo

#13. Bunce films them. So Joey who came out of one porn film would go into another. It could fuck up the whole space-time continuum. They could prosecute us."
"For?"
"Meta-fiction in the first degree?

David Pratt

#14. I don't like golf. It's not for me, it's too quiet.

Mario Balotelli

#15. Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Willie Mays

#16. Moths lay their eggs where civilizations have been destroyed.

Marty Rubin

#17. Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.

Derek Jeter