Baseball Quotes

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

I don't rate them, I just hit them.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

I love the game of baseball.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.

He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

Where do you want it?

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?

Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

I'm 36 years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. But until I heard the voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.

I've never seen a game like this. Every game this year has been like this.

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands.

I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.

Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.

If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat.

How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name.

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.

Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.

My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.