Baseball Quotes

There's two heads to every coin.

They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.

Benedict may not be as hurt as he really is.

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.

When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.

Hrabosky looks fierce in that Fu Manchu haircut.

What's cool about baseball is you don't have to see someone for years, but when you see them, you just hustle up and give them a big hug. Those friendships endure.

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

I thought he had been shot.

More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.

Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.

You got to be bad before you're good.

The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country.

Number one rule, attend to business

That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.

I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.

It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.

Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.

I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.

A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Billy copied Casey to a 'T.'

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

The only good thing about playing in Cleveland is you don't have to make road trips there.

It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

Let me get this straight. The owners are about to shut down baseball when it's more prosperous than it's even been, and the players are the ones who have to get their urine tested?

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.

It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit.

I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.

They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.