Baseball Quotes
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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
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“I came to this country to play baseball and give the best on the field. What people think outside the field, I don’t worry.”
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I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
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I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.
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And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.
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You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.
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Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
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Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.
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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
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With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
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That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
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I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.
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Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.
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During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
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He many not be hurt as much as he really is.
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Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
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Hrabosky looks fierce in that Fu Manchu haircut.
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I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.
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Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
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Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’
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There've been a lot of great players to play the game of baseball that never got an opportunity to go to the World Series, ... and I was hoping that I wasn't going to be another one of them.
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Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.
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Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game of baseball.
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Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.
