| Julia Hays 26. Oktober 2015 – 13:42
If Joseph Gordon-Levitt flapping his wings in Angels in the Outfield was a movie quote, you better believe it would make this list. (So, spoiler alert, it doesn’t.)
Tomorrow night the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals go head-to-head in the first game of the 2015 World Series.
Even if your team didn’t make it (you had a lot of Back to the Future enthusiasts behind you, Chicago Cubs), we can all agree there’s something special about a ballgame.
Whether or not you have something riding on this series, it’s the time of year when we get to see the best of the major leagues—and we’re ready to watch some amazing baseball.
Instead of just listening to “Meet the Mets” on repeat, here are some of our favorite baseball movie quotes ever to get you in the mood for America’s favorite pastime.
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1. “There’s no crying in baseball!” – A League of Their Own
2. “If you build it, he will come.” – Field of Dreams
3. “I’ve tried ’em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.” – Bill Durham
4. “God, I love baseball.” –The Natural
5. “How can you not get romantic about baseball?” – Moneyball
6. “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” –The Pride of the Yankees
7. “You know what we get to do today, Brooks? We get to play baseball.” –The Rookie
8. “I’d sell my soul for one long ball hitter.” –Damn Yankees!
9. “You get out there, and the stands are full and everybody’s cheerin’. It’s like everybody in the world come to see you. And inside of that there’s the players, they’re yakkin’ it up. The pitcher throws and you look for that pill… suddenly there’s nothing else in the ballpark but you and it. Sometimes, when you feel right, there’s a groove there, and the bat just eases into it and meets that ball. When the bat meets that ball and you feel that ball just give, you know it’s going to go a long way. Damn, if you don’t feel like you’re going to live forever.” –Eight Men Out
10. “You think losing is fun?” –Moneyball
11. “All the arguing in the world can’t change the decision of the umpire.” –The Pride of the Yankees
12. “You just got lesson number one: don’t think; it can only hurt the ball club.” –Bill Durham
13. “Juuuust a bit outside.” –Major League
14. “Man, this is baseball, you gotta stop thinking! Just have fun.” –The Sandlot
15. “I’d wake up at night with the smell of the ball park in my nose, the cool of the grass on my feet… The thrill of the grass.” –Field of Dreams
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16. “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard… is what makes it great.” –A League of Their Own
17. “We’re both going to have to pray much harder!” –Long Gone
18. “Anybody who uses computers doesn’t know a damn thing about this game.” –Trouble with the Curve
19. “You’re killing me, Smalls!” –The Sandlot
20. “The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again.” –Field of Dreams
21. “Pick me out a winner, Bobby.” –The Natural
22. “This quitting thing, it’s a hard habit to break once you start.” –The Bad News Bears
23. “I used to believe, I still do, that if you give something your all it doesn’t matter if you win or lose, as long as you’ve risked everything put everything out there. And I’ve done that. I did it my entire life.” –For Love of the Game
24. “You’re the best thing to happen to baseball since Cracker Jack!” –Rookie of the Year
25. “We’re not athletes, we’re baseball players!” –Mr. Baseball
What’s your favorite baseball movie moment? Let us know in the comments below!
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