Baseball Quotes

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.

He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.

My views are just about the same as Casey's.

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You get what you earn.

Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.

The phrasing didn't work as well.

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.

It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.

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

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.

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

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.

Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?

When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.