Baseball Quotes

I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.

I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport."

Pete Rose is baseball.

Our pitching could be better than I think it will be.

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm going to clobber him with a baseball bat

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

Next time you want to hit me hit me with a baseball bat or a crowbar!

Baseball is not a grind for me.

Baseball is the life.

Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.

Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.

I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.

There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived

I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.

Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.

An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.

Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.

Pitch within yourself.

It's (baseball) on the radio and in the newspapers every day, the only game you can follow on that basis. From whatever arm's length you choose, it's always there.

My job isn't to strike guys out, it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.

There isn't any more that I can teach him.

Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.

Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.

Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.

That boy Mantle is a good one.

Even though you make twelve hundred bucks a month, if I was making twelve hundred bucks a month to play baseball, I would have done it. I would have stayed.

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

He bats like a lightning rod.

Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.

In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.

Learn what pitch you can hit good; then wait for that pitch.

Hit them where they ain't.

Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.

As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."