Baseball Quotes
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Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.
Jerry Coleman
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At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.
Adam Dunn
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I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.
Frank McCourt
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I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.
Willie Lee McCovey
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I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
Bruce McCulloch
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Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.
Jerry Coleman
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Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.
A. G. Spalding
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My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.
Jim Leyland
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Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
Ernie Harwell
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Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.
Bo Jackson
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Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
Casey Kasem
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I was born to play baseball.
Roberto Clemente
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If you didn't love that game, you don't love baseball.
Nick Swisher
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I couldn't see well enough to play baseball when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.
Harry S Truman
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You know how you speed up baseball? Everybody gets one swing. That's it one swing fuck you, you're out sit down!
George Carlin
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I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
Robin Williams
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Larry Moffett is 6' 3". Last year he was 6" 6".
Jerry Coleman
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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
Joe Torre
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Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
Stan Coveleski
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
Willie Mays
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There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better.
Lloyd Blankfein
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His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.
Tom Hayden
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A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.
Peter Ueberroth