Baseball Quotes · Page 124

If a stolen base is there based on a pitcher's time to the plate, then steal a bag.

— Joe Maddon

To some people the limp glove, the smelly shoes, and the sturdy bat is just a game. But to me, it is…

— Savannah J

I had a marvelous baseball career and after my baseball career, there is an abundance of opportunity out there.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

— Sandy Koufax

“Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.”

— Tom Swyers

I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.

— Monte Irvin

Drew is a player that comes along once every 20 years. Not even Barry Bonds can be compared to J.D. Drew.

— Scott Boras

It's an honor and a blessing to be part of 'R.B.I. Baseball.'

— Mookie Betts

You want to score runs, you do whatever you can to reach base. You get on base, you do whatever you can…

— Marcus Semien

In 2016, I had an .870 OPS before I stopped playing every day. An .870 OPS in the big leagues? That plays.…

— Tommy Pham

Rocks make no compromise for sex... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports…

— Beverly Johnson

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's…

— Bob Uecker

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied…

— Yann Martel

I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw…

— Burleigh Grimes

We start 2016 with a command: that the subject of Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame is over, finis, kaput forever…

— Frank Deford

In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge…

— Julian Robertson

I liked playing with David Eckstein (former Angels shortstop). I'm not talking about players with top skills, I'm sure there were players…

— Bengie Molina

There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is…

— Donny Deutsch

I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers,…

— Roger Maris

Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and…

— David Cassidy

When I'm in the game [softball], it's not so much mechanics. It's more of just trusting my teammates, trusting myself, trusting my…

— Jennie Finch

Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb...…

— Douglas MacArthur

If you hit a routine fly ball in the big leagues, you're out every time. If you hit a ground ball, you're…

— Christian Yelich

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager…

— Sparky Anderson

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

— Ernie Harwell

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

— John Arlott

Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.

— Jerry Coleman

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.

— Tom Seaver

I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else.

— Billy Mays

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

— Warren Spahn

Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.

— Thomas Boswell

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

— Jerry Coleman

I think that's the beautiful thing about baseball - there's not one right way to do things.

— Ryan Zimmerman

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

— Roger Maris

As a hitter, I think if we wanted to change something, we should scoot the mound back. But that's never gonna happen.

— Cody Bellinger

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

— Laraine Day

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

— Billy Crystal

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

— Gil Hodges

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles…

— Sean Doolittle