Baseball Quotes · Page 115

What I've always tried to do, whether it's the NBA or baseball or golf, is be charged with getting the color.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

— Robert Frost

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

— Carl Yastrzemski

We're all blessed, as baseball players, to be playing this game, especially to make a living at it.

— Marcus Semien

Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.

— Tommy Lasorda

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

— Cass McCombs

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— Axel Morales

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

— Roger Kahn

Baseball is a business. Sure, we fans are wistful dreamers who fantasize about glory on the diamond, but to the people who…

— Tom Morello

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky…

— Bobby Bonilla

My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life…

— Chris Lane

He (Buck Showaleter) never even smelled a jock in the big leagues. Mr. Baseball never even got a hit in Triple-A. I…

— Ozzie Guillen

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him…

— Yogi Berra

Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the…

— Pedro Martinez

With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume…

— David Cone

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

— Peter Ueberroth

And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Vic Wertz once hit a ball rather famously that was later described as such: 'It would have been a home run in…

— Tucker Elliot

What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues…

— Walter Dean Myers

What we're going to do is use spring training as sort of a feeling-out process for Phil and Preston and our other…

— Tim Purpura

I posted some story about the Arizona State baseball coach getting into a fight with an autograph hound, and it was a…

— Drew Magary

I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves,…

— Bruce Sutter

“He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball.…

— Gwenn Wright

My parents read me some typical children's books: 'Green Eggs and Ham,' 'The Little Engine That Could,' 'Peter Rabbit.' But I quickly…

— James Holzhauer

Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms.

— Goose Gossage

You usually feel a little bit better when you are hitting a few more homers. That's just the way it goes.

— Buster Posey

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

— Robert Moog

I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it.

— Yogi Berra

I strive to be the best shortstop I can be and WAR is a great stat to look at when evaluating the…

— Carlos Correa

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. They're all different.

— Tom Seaver

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

— Jeff Garlin

I've always loved the infield, because I came up as an infielder.

— Ben Zobrist

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

— Jerry Coleman

As an infielder, I know how tough it is to catch a ball that's a line drive right at you in between.

— Carlos Correa

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

— Bill Veeck

The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.

— Jane Leavy

The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out.

— Tom Seaver

Tall pitchers create leverage and angle, often inducing more groundballs and sometimes swings and misses.

— Gabe Kapler

When I get on the field, it's just going to be another game, You get out there and it's just baseball.

— Eric Byrnes

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

— Dontrelle Willis