Baseball Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The game in St. Louis has been halted in the fourth inning because of rain. I'll bet they have the jacuzzis going there.

Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

I wanted to play baseball!

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

I'd rather not throw the ball at all.

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.

I rarely think the market is right. I believe non dividend stocks aren't much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it.

This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Social media is dangerous for baseball players. Things can get taken out of context so fast. You can say something you don't want to say. It's dangerous.