Pete Rose:
I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
Pete Rose:
I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
I forgot to do a quote of the day yesterday, so here are two quotes from Satchel Paige:
“If a man can beat you, walk him.”
“I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball.”
Casey Stengel on the 1962 Mets:
“Can’t anybody here play this game?”
Amazingly, I haven’t done a Yogi-Ism yet. Time to solve that:
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
Mike Piazza on slumps… and the one man he thought never got any:
“One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you’re Greg Maddux, it’s going to happen to everybody.”
Today’s quote comes from pollster (and former baseball sabermatrician) Nate Silver:
Any one game in baseball doesn’t tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn’t tell you that much.
Today’s quote comes from Jim Abbott:
“One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.”
Today’s quote comes from Hank Aaron:
Failure is a part of success.
From Honus Wagner:
“I won’t play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.”
Today’s quote is by Connie Mack:
“There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.”