Baseball Quotes · Page 110

I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.

— Rickey Henderson

I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?

— Dusty Baker

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

— Willie Stargell

Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.

— Roberto Clemente

I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

— Stephen Gostkowski

When I was 13 I played baseball the whole summer. I never touched a pole vault pole.

— Armand Duplantis

I'd say that probably 95 per cent of batting is mental and decision-making.

— Steve Smith

I watched other boys play baseball and other games, but I was too sickly to join in the fun.

— Bruno Sammartino

So why am I an A's fan? Because, from 1901 to 1954, they were the Philadelphia Athletics. Philadelphia is my home town.…

— Richard Corliss

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other…

— Willie Mays

I'm a utility infielder. There's always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in…

— Gabe Newell

I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became…

— George Will

Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I'm here to win a World Series. I'm excited to be here with my team. I'm excited to be here with the…

— Manny Machado

Watching a high-spin short-game shot zip to a stop is exciting, but the reality is that your score will improve most by…

— Scottie Scheffler

I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.…

— Woody Allen

“Good game,” someone said, patting my shoulder. “Thanks,” I said, laughing. Then I felt arms come around me and pull me close.…

— Rachel Hawthorne

“All I had to do was make this guy happy. I’d take care of his cows and do manual labor for two…

— Abbi Glines

There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really…

— Michael Kay

A Home Run Derby is fun. It's just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it…

— Frank Thomas

I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball,…

— Jim Kelly

“Italian-Americans in New York had not been in much of a flag-waving mood prior to DiMaggio's arrival. By the All-Star break, the…

— Jonathan Eig

He's like a baseball team owner who also wants to coach, but who also attracts fans, like David Duke, and now anti-semi…

— Greg Gutfeld

At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory:…

— Jane Leavy

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

— Chris Hogan

People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

— Justin Verlander

Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.

— Gerrit Cole

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

— George Carlin

Any time you play shortstop or center field, the majority of the baseballs are hit in the middle of the field.

— Aaron Judge

I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.

— Richard M. Nixon

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill…

— Mickey Rivers

There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm…

— Satchel Paige

The stadium is a part of the Yankees and the Yankees are a part of the stadium. That will never change.

— Chuck Knoblauch

They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.

— Jerry Coleman

If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.

— Steve Goodman

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

— Rogers Hornsby

My introduction to sports was through baseball. That's all I knew.

— Jessica Mendoza

If you get a veteran guy that's getting marginal pitches, you know you're in for a tough night and a battle.

— Alex Bregman

Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?

— Casey Stengel

I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.

— Jorge Posada