Baseball Quotes
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There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it's mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they're usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except I find pitching and batting are visually very striking.
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
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When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'
Darin Erstad
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I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it’s just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.
Deacon Jones
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Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
Dorrel Norman Elvert Herzog
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Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
Mickey Mantle
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There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.
Jerry Coleman
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The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about
Cal Ripken, Sr.
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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'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
Bryce Harper
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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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If you didn't love that game, you don't love baseball.
Nick Swisher
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I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
Joe Garagiola
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Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I don't see any baseball expansion right now. If it were up to me, I would contract two teams. But I certainly don't think expansion on the horizon.
Jerry Reinsdorf
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What a great hitch to pit!
Jerry Coleman
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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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Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.
Jerry Coleman
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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Pete Rose
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Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
Ernie Harwell
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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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Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.
Russell Baker
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Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.
Jerry Coleman
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When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
Willie Stargell