Baseball Quotes

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

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.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.

A great catch is like watching girls go by. The last one you see is always the prettiest.

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

You're going to be a great player, kid.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

Speed slows down the game.

Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.

Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.

You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that way of knocking you back down to earth.

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.

Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

I just want to play baseball.

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.

Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

I'm not perfect. Nobody's perfect. But I love baseball and I love to play hard.

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed