Center Field Quotes

• In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

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  Ken Harrelson

  Leadership   Baseball   Running  

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• My first baseman is George "Catfish" Metkovich from our 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates team, which lost 112 games. After a terrible series against the New York Giants, in which our center fielder made three throwing errors and let two balls get through his legs, manager Billy Meyer pleaded, "Can somebody think of something to help us win a game?" "I'd like to make a suggestion," Metkovich said. "On any ball hit to center field, let's just let it roll to see if it might go foul."

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  Joe Garagiola

  New York   Team   Thinking  

  434

• On any ball hit to center field, let's just let it roll to see if it might go foul.

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  Joe

  Balls   Might   Fields  

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• When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

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  Ryan Sypek

  Baseball   Real   Play  

  1356

• The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

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  Mickey Rivers

  Wind   Fields   Firsts  

  2177

• I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.

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  Bryce Harper

  Thinking   Play   Bats  

  1047

• I had a good run here, fifteen years. That's a great run. I'm not saying that I'm done in center field - if I could play there forever, I would. But I know that's not reality, so I'm happy.

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  Bernie Williams

  Running   Reality   Years  

  4293

• I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!

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  Tom Hanks

  Money   New York   School  

  4822

• The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.

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  Stan Musial

  Baseball   Keys   Average  

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