Baseball Quotes · Page 117

You know how hard it is to play the game from game to game, at-bat to at-bat, so many things can change.

— Trea Turner

He was real low on his pitch count, but we had a fresh bullpen. I didn't think that was much of an…

— Xavi Hernandez

I was in the American League for 16, 17 years, and I think it's a really tough league to compete in.

— Tony La Russa

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

— Dizzy Dean

I'm not going up there trying to hit more fly balls. I'm just trying to hit the ball hard.

— Ryan Zimmerman

I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

— Mick Foley

Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to…

— Leo Durocher

We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.

— Tyler Winklevoss

I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.

— Jim Palmer

If we can help all these kids who are working so hard each and every day playing baseball by giving them some…

— Marcus Semien

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run…

— Ray Bradbury

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for…

— Pete Rose

I think the important thing now, getting closer to the pitch counts, it feels like I got something left. I felt I…

— Roy Halladay

Life is like a baseball game, you will never what will happen unless you swing the bat and take the risk of…

— Anonymous

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his…

— Joe Torre

I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder.…

— Greg Maddux

“Indoors, the evening gets you’d say festive, with Maxine riding Horst for the better part of an hour, not that it’s anybody’s…

— Thomas Pynchon

Unfortunately, (the rumors) are going to be a part of it. But that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else. I'm…

— Jason Giambi

I remember one spring when I was doing the team's telecasts, Bob Allison was with me, and we were walking through the…

— Harmon Killebrew

Typically, it takes young players years to adjust to life in the big leagues and to start performing up to their capabilities.…

— Theo Epstein

Derek Jeter has been a great representative of what the Yankees have stood for over the years. He has been a team…

— Joe Girardi

You never go into a season thinking you're going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit…

— R.A. Dickey

We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a…

— Buck Leonard

“That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down…

— Don DeLillo

“A freak who thought about death and murder twenty-four-seven, not football games and baseball”

— Tillie Cole

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

— Jimmy Breslin

Anyone who says that softball is a boring game to watch isn't looking at the right things.

— Yvonne Zipter

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

— Jerry Coleman

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every…

— Mickey Mantle

Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

— Jerry Coleman

I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they…

— Harry S. Truman

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

— Doug Harvey

Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.

— Pete Rose

I'm never going to criticize any umpires or anything, because they're a big part of the game.

— Dave Martinez

When we [the Braves] won the World Series in '95, I went nuts. I mean, that was my team.

— Jeff Francoeur

It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

— Billy Mays

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

— Marsha Warfield

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

— Reggie Jackson

I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.

— Phil Rizzuto

If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.

— Sammy Sosa