Baseball Quotes · Page 116

Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

— Ally Carter

Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.

— Jerry Coleman

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

— Sherman Alexie

Getting to say you're going to the World Series is a pretty special thing.

— Clayton Kershaw

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

— Mary McGrory

Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.

— George Winston

I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.

— Calvin Pryor

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what…

— Andy Van Slyke

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

— George Will

My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and…

— Barry Larkin

Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need…

— Christine Pelosi

Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how…

— Larry Doby

The only difference between baseball guys or football guys and wrestling guys is that when you go to the game, you see…

— Harley Race

Where I came from with the Twins, they were passionate about baseball. Through thick and thin, it was, 'Let's go.' It's something…

— Jacque Jones

Any hitter will tell you, whenever you feel right, you're not thinking. If you lose the feel a little bit, you think…

— Kyle Schwarber

“Discouraged? As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local Little League baseball game that was…

— Jack Canfield

I was my father's son and my mother's daughter. There was never any time when I felt I wasn't equally capable -…

— Linda McMahon

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change…

— Pat Gillick

It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the…

— Mario Cuomo

When I was growing up, I played hockey, soccer, baseball, basketball. It was more making sure that I stayed healthy and in…

— Johnny Gaudreau

When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

When I was with the Giants, I played for Dusty Baker, and I love Dusty to death. I think he's a great…

— Dave Martinez

Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball…

— Mordecai Brown

Interviewer: What do you like about baseball? Cabrera: I like to hit. I like to field. Did I say I like to…

— Miguel Cabrera

It's good to see a kid that young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

— Jorge Posada

My first baseball game was a Cubs game at Wrigley Field... I really wanted to be a boy.

— Emily Wickersham

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

— Tug McGraw

Ever since I signed, I've wanted to do great things in baseball.

— Carlos Correa

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

— Curt Schilling

“ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.”

— Anthony Liccione

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

— Joe DiMaggio

Renko has just about had it. Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.

— Jerry Coleman

“A soft moan escapes me, making him smile even more. He's too good at this.”

— Collette West

What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

— Grover Cleveland

Chris Gayle is an incredible player. A big guy, with phenomenal power and a very big bat. It's quite the combo.

— Jos Buttler

But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.

— Frank Robinson

You might be a redneck if you own at least 20 baseball hats.

— Jeff Foxworthy

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

— Harry Caray

In a sport like baseball, you strike out or get embarrassed, you turn the page.

— Stephen Gostkowski