Baseball Quotes · Page 108

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

— Gaylord Perry

When rain is around, the team batting second gets a huge advantage.

— Shahid Afridi

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

— Christy Mathewson

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.

— Jason Giambi

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

— Ernie Harwell

The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

— Mark Teixeira

I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.

— Jerry Coleman

A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.

— Matt Holliday

David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do…

— Kevin Sessums

I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone…

— Simon R. Green

It's not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don't think you are going to win a World Series without…

— Bruce Sutter

The players get no respect around here. They (the Yankees) give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and…

— Don Mattingly

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it…

— Carl Yastrzemski

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like…

— Carl Crawford

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to…

— Mark Teixeira

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't…

— Babe Ruth

Baseball is a set of individuals doing their thing in the same team, but it's much more individual. In basketball people are…

— Steve Ballmer

I think there's something to baseball, golf, fishing that there's downtime within all of those sports. Even though you're still doing the…

— Jessica Mendoza

I don't think I've changed very much. I think I'm the same kid that I was when I got here. When I…

— Alex Bregman

People think that that's an easy job, it's just get behind that desk and put that tie on and just talk baseball.…

— Alex Cora

“I believe baseball and the Church are deeply kindred spirits—both feature obscure rules that make sense only to initiates, both have communions…

— Robert E. Barron

It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a…

— Jocko Willink

I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio) wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem,…

— Willie Mays

“It’s Curt Schilling and his bloody sock staring down the Yankees in the Bronx. It’s Derek Lowe taking the mound the very…

— Tucker Elliot

Dont ever let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

— Anonymous

I want to be a good offspeed taker and a good fastball hitter.

— Marcus Semien

There is no logical reason why girls shouldn't play baseball. It's not all that tough.

— Hank Aaron

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

— Brian McBride

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

— Charley Lau

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the…

— Lefty Gomez

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

— Ben Zobrist

“In situations like these, baseball caps come in really handy.”

— R.J. Palacio

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

— Vin Scully

George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him.

— Lou Piniella

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

— Dennis Quaid

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

— Tom Brady

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

— Whitey Herzog

I had a million-dollar arm, but I wasn't thinking enough about how to be a pitcher.

— Randy Johnson

I can't bring a sword into the ground, so have to make do with the bat.

— Ravindra Jadeja

No. No, no, no, no, Blyleven wasn't even the dominant pitcher of his era - it was Jack Morris.

— Reggie Jackson