Baseball Quotes

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

It ain't nothing till I call it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It's a beautiful day for a night game.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

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.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers

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

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

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.

They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

I know a doctor who can give you a shot and you'll get over that cold you've got and get better in a day.

I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.

In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.

Today I am the greatest of all time.

I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.