Baseball Quotes

Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.

It's a cold night out tonight. The Padres better warm up real good because it's stiff out there.

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.

I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.

They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.

When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to.

Sunday is Senior Citizens' Day. And if you want to become a senior citizen, just call the Padre ticket office.

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.

The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

You might be a redneck if you have a very special baseball cap, just for formal occasions.

You might be a redneck if you own at least 20 baseball hats.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

When you're famous you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full Madonna kit - it doesn't work: my stupid face is too big.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball.

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.

I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York

If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it.

It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.