Baseball Quotes

Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light.

Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game of baseball.

I've fallen in love with baseball.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Baseball is a man maker.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh.

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well.

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

Jesus Christ. If he can play, I got to play, too.

I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.

I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

It's a beautiful day for a night game.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free. We just played baseball because it was fun.

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to the park, because they aren't true baseball fans.

Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

I'd find the fellow who lost it [million dollars], and, if he was poor, I'd return it.

It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.

I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

If you don't play to win, why keep score?

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.