Quotes About Throwing A Baseball

#1. To join Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys was like throwing a baseball around in your front yard and somebody coming over and signing you to play for the New York Yankees.

Johnny Gimble

#2. You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

Drew Bledsoe

#3. I loved throwing a baseball. It is so important to find something in life you feel crazy about. Because you are so passionate you naturally practice. The hard work that it takes to do something well will come easily.

Jim Abbott

#4. If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

Jerry Coleman

#5. The baseball fights, you don't ever see the squaring off like you do in hockey, and in some instances, that's where baseball fights can be potentially more dangerous because you've got guys running all over the place and people throwing punches at you that you don't even see half the time.

Tom Glavine

#6. One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Maria Montessori

#7. Where there is increase there is a constant flow of people

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Instead of trying to get to the bottom of why her daughter was floundering through life, she sent me off to ranch boot camp to "prove" myself worthy of art school.

Nicole Williams

#9. We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

Phil Taylor

#10. Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

Samuel Barnett

#11. How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it.
[Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.]

J.R. Richard

#12. The youth of the Church are hungry for things of the Spirit; they are eager to learn the gospel, and they want it straight, undiluted" (The Charted Course of the Church in Education, rev. ed. [1994], 3).

J. Reuben Clark

#13. There's nothing more valuable in life than integrity. Trust me.

Frank Sonnenberg

#14. I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team ... that's throwing the game.

Pete Rose

#15. Trees, skies, valleys mountains, seen through the rain-spotted windshield, were like a distorted, stippled landscape painted by a beginner who has not yet learned to wring living colour from his palette.

Stella Benson

#16. I thought they expected you to be controversial at UCLA?"
"I believe the Board of Regents draws the line at sacrificial murder.

Josh Lanyon

#17. Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result.

Michael Light

#18. Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

Edward Abbey

#19. It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit.

Sam McDowell

#20. Betemit's positional flexibility is the same as yours: He can stand around and muse about the great philosophical debates of our day anywhere on the field. Catching and throwing the baseball is an entirely different question.

Baseball Prospectus

#21. Take the path that leads to nowhere. It's the most fun.

Teresa Mummert

#22. After all, I was choosing to walk in the front door of Morgan Stanley every day. I didn't have to. I could make a different choice. I had to stop throwing away my power by focusing on what was wrong and focus on ways, to use a baseball term, "to knock the cover off the ball.

Carla Harris

#23. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do.

Bill Willingham

#24. I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

Charles Spurgeon