Baseball Quotes · Page 119

That's the hardest play in baseball, is a line drive right at you.

— J. D. Martinez

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

— Jorge Posada

It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.

— Leslie Ford

I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

— Emmylou Harris

I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.

— Alex Pettyfer

That's a thing you always hear - the hitters make adjustments. I think the pitcher has to make some adjustments, too.

— Patrick Corbin

It's hard on an all-gay softball team because no one knows if they want to be a pitcher or a catcher.

— Chelsea Handler

Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.

— Katie Uhlaender

All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have…

— Dave Winfield

Canadians see the Americans as cousins. We love the same sports: Canadians are crazy about baseball and basketball, and our beloved game…

— Margaret MacMillan

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

— Casey Stengel

I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in…

— Wayne Gretzky

I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball,…

— Rob Gronkowski

Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over…

— David Duchovny

Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year,…

— David Grann

Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn - what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms…

— Tom Seaver

I'm legitimately having more fun doing music, but at the same time I worked my whole life for baseball. If I had…

— Mike Stud

You have to understand what they (pitchers) do. That's my job. You have to find a way to get them through the…

— Jorge Posada

“    5.  Unfair to Animals                    6.  Unfair to Muledom THE HALF-PENNANT PORCH Finley was obsessed with the Yankees and attributed their success to the short…

— Josh Ostergaard

I've made game-winners, I've missed game-winners. I've pitched shutouts, and I've given up 10 runs. You just deal with the experiences and…

— Stephen Gostkowski

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where…

— Nomar Garciaparra

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over…

— Jay Leno

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of…

— Norman Rockwell

Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's…

— James Surowiecki

If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

— Lindsey Nelson

We weren't trying to walk him; he just wouldn't swing at any bad pitches.

— Bobby Cox

As an average hitter myself, I lacked that true back knee drive.

— Gabe Kapler

“What those anti-cookie-baking mothers wanted me to do was turn baseball into soccer.”

— Chuck Klosterman

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

— Gerald R. Ford

There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.

— Richard Linklater

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

— Durwood Merrill

The New York Yankees' organization - they train us well from the get-go. They tell us how to handle everything.

— Aaron Judge

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to…

— Harmon Killebrew

I want to hit the ball and I want to get at-bats. The results really dont matter to me.

— Torii Hunter

Parting ways with the Braves obviously didn't pan out as peacefully as I had hoped.

— John Smoltz

I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

— Skeet Ulrich

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the…

— Casey Stengel

I think if a batter's got the better of you naturally in the back of your mind you can go slightly defensive.

— Saqib Mahmood

I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!

— Ray Kroc

To me, baseball is, in some ways, other than my family and wife, my life, and it always will be.

— Joe Buck