Baseball Quotes
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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.
Craig Biggio
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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.
Terry Bradshaw
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Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.
Jerry Coleman
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You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.
Jerry Coleman
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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.
Willie Mays
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At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.
Jerry Coleman
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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.
Mickey Mantle
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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.
Andrew McCutchen
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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.
Alex Bregman
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As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.
David Wright
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I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.
Carlos Delgado
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Hrabosky looks fierce in that Fu Manchu haircut.
Jerry Coleman
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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.
Steve Rushin
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Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon.
Jerry Coleman
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I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.
Richie Ashburn
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I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.
Willie Wilson
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Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
Jerry Coleman
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The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
Satchel Paige
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I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
John Malkovich
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Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
George Will
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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.
Paul Gallico
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He many not be hurt as much as he really is.
Jerry Coleman
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When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.
Rollie Fingers
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Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
Jerry Coleman