Baseball Quotes · Page 112

You can't have your bullpen throwing three or four innings every night. Just not fair to them.

— Clayton Kershaw

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles…

— Sean Doolittle

There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.

— Tim Hudson

When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.

— Jorge Posada

Confidence oozed out of him. He took something away from you even before you threw a pitch [About Ted Williams].

— Gene Conley

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

— Jerry Coleman

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

— Gil Hodges

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

— Billy Crystal

I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can…

— Barry Zito

I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.

— Billy Butler

Baseball in Canada is like soccer in the U.S. It is growing, and some people are starting to gain interest. The way…

— Joey Votto

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless… In no other game…

— Neville Cardus

ESPN is reporting that the drug that resulted in Manny Ramirez's suspension from baseball was a fertility drug. How did a fertility…

— Seth Meyers

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player.…

— Phil Knight

I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I…

— Michael Jackson

My wife and I love children. We have five of our own. I would ask that anyone who looks up to me…

— Albert Pujols

“However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball,…

— Michael Delaware

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the…

— Ty Cobb

I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all…

— Hank Aaron

I started collecting baseball cards and basketball cards when I was younger. I have a CD collection that turned into a DVD…

— Marques Houston

In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I…

— Joe J. Christensen

It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's…

— Sandy Koufax

One day, the infielders were having a pretty bad time and were making some bad throws to me at first base. After…

— Johnny Mize

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

— Laraine Day

As a hitter, I think if we wanted to change something, we should scoot the mound back. But that's never gonna happen.

— Cody Bellinger

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

— Roger Maris

I think that's the beautiful thing about baseball - there's not one right way to do things.

— Ryan Zimmerman

Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.

— Yu Darvish

People who say spring training's too long, I absolutely disagree. I think it's the perfect length of time.

— Joe Maddon

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

— Jim Fowler

I would like to come back in the World Series. And I want to pitch better.

— Yu Darvish

I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

— Scott Rolen

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.

— Roger Clemens

Anything that makes me feel like being a baseball player beyond being a pitcher, I'll take advantage of it.

— Max Fried

“Did she go to Washington Redskins football games, or follow the Nats baseball team?”

— Ken Follett

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

— Ken Harrelson

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

— Dan Uggla

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

— Stephen Strasburg