Baseball Quotes
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The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
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Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.
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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.
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Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.
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Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.
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Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.
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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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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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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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Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.
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They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.
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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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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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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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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
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I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.
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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 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.
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Hrabosky looks fierce in that Fu Manchu haircut.
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Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
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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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Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
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I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.
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If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
