Baseball Quotes · Page 118

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in…

— Andy Pettitte

Good hitters don't become intimidated. They become infuriated.

— Ken Singleton

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

— Pete Rose

Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.

— Jeremy Bonderman

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

— Mike Penner

Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

— Young Jeezy

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.

— Nick Johnson

A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I…

— Ryan Zimmerman

When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could…

— Mo'ne Davis

Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being…

— Dave Parker

I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been…

— Buddy Guy

Maybe the day will come when I can sit back and be content…But until that day comes, I intend to stay in…

— Hank Aaron

Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where…

— George Will

The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out…

— Dan Uggla

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that…

— Casey Stengel

I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me... Every year I…

— John Kruk

The baby woke up before you did. I took him to the other room to let you get a little more sleep.…

— Lisa Kleypas

“It’s one thing to win a game with a base hit, or to save a game by pitching a scoreless ninth ...…

— Tucker Elliot

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses…

— Theo Epstein

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person.…

— Michael Mandelbaum

[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever…

— Ralph Kiner

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take…

— Al Kaline

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I love baseball and love the Indians and all the teams here.

— Stipe Miocic

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

— Brooks Robinson

I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person.

— Troy Glaus

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

— Jackie Robinson

The way I pitch is the way I pitch. I'm not going to change my overall philosophy. I'll just go out and…

— Mark Prior

All my life in professional baseball, people said 'He could be better.'

— Ken Griffey Jr

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

— Tom Hicks

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

— Bill Klem

If I hear Bowie Kuhn say just once more he's doing something for the betterment of baseball, I'm going to throw-up.

— Sparky Anderson

As a player, you can't express ideas and opinions as easily as when you're doing a ballgame.

— Troy Aikman

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

— Bruce Catton

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

— Dan Quisenberry

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

— Mickey Mantle

What a hell of a league this is. Ah hit .387, .408, and .395 the last three years and Ah ain't won nothin' yet!

— Joe

I just wanted to play baseball because I liked baseball. I never was giving up on football.

— Joe Flacco

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

— Balthazar Getty