Tris Speaker Quotes

I pitched and I played the outfield.

I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

Because I could throw so hard when I got to college, they made me a pitcher. If I had to it all over again, I would have stuck to playing in the outfield. I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

I love second base.

Fielding has always come naturally to me and I've always enjoyed it. While keeping, you're just standing in one place and I've done it so many times so I've enjoyed fielding and that's why I enjoy playing as a batsman.

As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either.

He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.

If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.

In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

I never think Im going to make a double play in the outfield. But I did it.

When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.

When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.

I don't want anybody to panic. I'm not pitching. I'm just throwing out the first ball.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?

I'd rather not throw the ball at all.

We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

There is no defense against the base on balls.