Baseball Quotes · Page 105

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

— Casey Stengel

Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.

— Studs Terkel

Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.

— Howard Frank Mosher

Both of my parents are from Upstate New York, so my dad was a Yankees fan and I grew up a Yankees…

— Corey Seager

The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.

— Mickey Mantle

A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.

— Tony Robbins

I go to the gym in a baseball cap, sweats and then run into a boy I like. It happens - so…

— Azita Ghanizada

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

— Derek Jeter

Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out.…

— Neil Simon

I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood…

— Noel Clarke

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's…

— Bo Jackson

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick…

— Bob Uecker

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter.…

— Ted Williams

I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do…

— Sammy Sosa

In disciplines as disparate as baseball, financial services, trucking and retail, people are realizing the power of data to help make better…

— Paul DePodesta

Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of…

— Jane Leavy

I started out on my brother-in-law's team. He had a terrific team. He needed a sub in the summer when the guys…

— Ron Robson

“You can say, 'Well, if they tore down Fenway Park, we can build a new one.' But you wouldn’t build it right.…

— Tom Boswell

You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and…

— Sterling W Sill

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the…

— Ernie Harwell

“I am convinced that being fully committed to the moment, without any worries about the past or projections into the future, is…

— Mariano Rivera

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was…

— James Caan

I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I…

— Leon Wagner

“But baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric - not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus…

— Chad Harbach

After I strike out I say, 'Hey, it's just another game. It's just another way to play baseball.'

— Juan Soto

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

— Jerry Coleman

I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

— Leon Day

Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.

— Kylie Bunbury

Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

— John Madden

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

— Warren Spahn

Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!

— Dave Niehaus

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

— Shemar Moore

At the end of the day, strikeouts come from consistent shapes of pitches in good locations.

— Max Fried

Pitchers made an adjustment to me. It's up to me to come up with an answer.

— Aaron Judge

In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

— Bobby Keys

I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York…

— Ian Astbury

You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of…

— Leon Brown

There are some great pitchers in this league. You're going to get fooled sometimes. They're going to get you.

— Aaron Judge

I spent a lot of hours on the baseball field doing whatever I could do to get better.

— Evan Longoria

Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.

— Jon Lester