Third Base Quotes

#1. I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

Leo Durocher

#2. Old Noel Constant had never known anything about business, and neither had his son - and what little charm the Constants had evaporated the instant they pretended that their successes depended on their knowing their elbows from third base.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.

Goose Gossage

#4. Born on third base, my daddy always said of the well off, and they think they hit a home run.

Mary Karr

#5. I got to third base. At baseball practice the following Monday, that is. As for what happened that night with Kevin at the stinky picnic gazebo, that's none of your damn business.

Brent Hartinger

#6. You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.

Monte Irvin

#7. Some people are born on third base ...

Barry Switzer

#8. Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

Morgan Ensberg

#9. I'm a teammate guy, so whatever I can do to help my team to win like I have the past two years, that's what I want to do. If it takes for me to play first base, third base, right field, I just want to win the game.

Albert Pujols

#10. The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

Henny Youngman

#11. Calculated risk taking will pay huge dividends. How will you ever get to third base with one foot on second? The biggest risk is not taking risks.

Robin S. Sharma

#12. That boy may have been born on third base but he sure as shit ain't scored a triple.

Sarah Hall

#13. When you hit a three-run triple, do you really need to get on third base, or do you need to stand on the double? You gotta be as smart as you can.

Bryce Harper

#14. If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

Ron Suskind

#15. One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.

Lefty Gomez

#16. Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.

Nicholas Kristof

#17. Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

Jerry Coleman

#18. I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

Macklemore

#19. Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Switzer

#20. Umpire's heaven is a place where he works third base every game. Home is where the heartache is.

Ron Luciano

#21. To me playing third base and left field and moving all over the place, it doesn't bother me because I still have to grab that bat and hit no matter where I play.

Albert Pujols

#22. I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, Try this. I got such a laugh you wouldnt believe.

Peter Falk

#23. When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

Bob Uecker

#24. John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

Judy Johnson

#25. The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.

Rocky Bridges

#26. Ready for sex, but my body had been so receptive to his touch. Was it like that for everyone else? I wish I could ask Emmy without bringing suspicion upon myself. She had been to third base more times than some baseball players. I snickered out loud at my joke. Emmet looked at me with one eyebrow

L.D. Davis

#27. Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.

John Green

#28. I ... just don't want to say good-bye to you, Eleanor. Ever.
He opened his eyes and looked straight into her. Maybe this was third base.

Rainbow Rowell

#29. Born on third base and think they hit a triple,

Jennifer Weiner

#30. You know, it was once said of the first George Bush that he was born on third base and thought he'd hit a triple. Well, with the 22 million new jobs and the budget surplus Bill Clinton left behind, George W. Bush came into office on third base, and then he stole second.

Ted Strickland

#31. Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.

Al Kaline

#32. When I get to first base, I start thinking about third.

Jose Reyes

#33. You realize that constitutes going to second base, right? So as a seasoned base runner I have to tell you, stealing third should be on the table. And when I steal a base you should know I never get thrown out, I'm very fast.

Kitty Berry

#34. There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

Casey Stengel

#35. The base of our party is commonsense conservatives.If the Republican Party gets back to that base, I think our party's going to be stronger and there's not going to be a need for a third party.

Michael Enzi

#36. The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.

Neale Donald Walsch

#37. The kundalini energy rests in potential at the base of the spine. It is possible to take that energy and allow it to move, to unleash it, from the base of the spine up to the third eye.

Frederick Lenz

#38. Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment.

Rocky Bridges

#39. I once recommended [in a San Francisco Chronicle column] that a third arm - a plastic arm - be sewn at the base of the spine so that people could have a tripod to sit on while waiting in line, and it was taken seriously.

Alan Abel

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