"There are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary. They're more democratic." - Crash Davis to Nuke Strikeouts are boring and besides that, they're fascist. "Man that ball got outta here in a hurry, you know anything that travels that far oughta have a damn stewardess on it, don't you think?" "I'm your new catcher and you just got lesson number one: don't think, it can only hurt the ballclub." "God, the sucker teed-off on that like he knew I was gonna throw a fast ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.' Think about that for a while." You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. "A good friend of mine used to say, 'This is a very simple game.
"Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by Babe) Ruth hit got smaller quicker." - Walter Johnson in Ken Burns Baseball (1994) It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again." - James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams (1989) This field, this game, is a part of our past. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. "The one constant through all the years has been baseball. But today, today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth." - Gary Cooper in Pride of the Yankees (1942) "People all say that I've had a bad break. "Pick me out a winner, Bobby"- Roy Hobbs in The Natural (1984) Damn, if you don't feel like your going to live forever." - John Cusac as Buck Weaver in Eight Men Out (1988) When the bat meets that ball you can feel that ball just give and you know it is going to go a long way. Inside that there is the players in there and there yakking it up and the pitcher throws and your looking for that pill and suddenly there is nothing else in the ballpark you and it and sometimes when your feeling right and there is a groove there and the bat just eases into it and meets that ball.
It is like everbody in the world come to see you. You get out there and the stands are full and everybody is cheering. "I still get such a bang out of it, playing ball. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series." - James Belushi in Taking Care of Business (1990) You know it doesn't have to mean anything, it's just beautiful to watch." - Woody Allen in Zelig (1983)
"If you build it, he will come." - Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams (1989)
"God, I love baseball." - Robert Redford in The Natural (1984) "Do you know what we get to do today Brooks? We get to play baseball." - Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid) in The Rookie (2002) "Are you trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?" - Harris in Major League (1989) "Ahh, Jesus, I like him very much, but He no help with curveball." - Serrano.
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