Baseball Quotes · Page 106

People strike out. I strike out a lot - it happens. Just got to keep working.

— Aaron Judge

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

— Anonymous

Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.

— Lee MacPhail

I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope.

— Jon Hamm

When you get strike one, strike two, you're putting pressure on them to swing at your pitches.

— Patrick Corbin

That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

— Jerry Coleman

If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.

— Kate O'Brien

I hate striking out, doesn't matter what time of the game. I just don't like striking out.

— Joe Mauer

I don't know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from…

— Eddie Mathews

I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are…

— Mookie Betts

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball,…

— Robert Benchley

We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the…

— Joe Torre

You're not necessarily going to sneak out many cheap ones, but the ones that are supposed to be homers are homers when…

— Christian Yelich

How're the Broncos doing?" "Like a bunch of carrots." "Is that bad?" "Can carrots play baseball?" "I guess not." "Then you have…

— Nicholas Sparks

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What…

— George Archer

“Between 1999 and 2002, the Yankees paid over three times what the A’s paid for the average player on their roster. The…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or…

— Dusty Baker

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way.…

— Thomas Boswell

“The beauty of baseball is multidimensional, appealing to the eye and the mind. There is beauty, for instance, in its geometry, the…

— Tom Verducci

I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's…

— John McGraw

At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much…

— Pat Gillick

Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the…

— Harold S. Kushner

Life is like baseball...it throws strange things and you just like the pitcher throws that hard baseball...if you miss it the first…

— Anonymous

Putting the ball in play is what I want to do, especially with runners on base.

— Xander Bogaerts

As a pitcher, you're supposed to succeed, and you're not supposed to give up a hit.

— Clayton Kershaw

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

— Charlie Gehringer

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

— Roger Clemens

Baseball is my job, and I love it, but it can't be the only thing I've got going on.

— Matt Harvey

“We were separated by years, tastes in music, food, clothes, and politics, but we delighted in baseball.”

— Chris Fabry

Cuz when you play the game every strike counts and why they call them 8balls? Cuz they don't bounce.

— Young Jeezy

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

— Willie Stargell

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

— Adam Dunn

This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.

— Fay Vincent

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

— Earl Weaver

If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.

— Andrew Flintoff

Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.

— Leon Brown

My biggest fear was being down in the minors and, even if I was dominating, knowing there was nothing for me to…

— Tommy Pham

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.

— Nellie Fox

“Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.”

— Ring Lardner