Baseball Quotes · Page 125

You can't have your bullpen throwing three or four innings every night. Just not fair to them.

— Clayton Kershaw

I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.

— Jerry Coleman

Confidence oozed out of him. He took something away from you even before you threw a pitch [About Ted Williams].

— Gene Conley

When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.

— Jorge Posada

There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.

— Tim Hudson

I am not tired of being baseball's designated 'outspoken guy.' It's just me being me.

— Trevor Bauer

I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.

— Ryan Guzman

It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

— Curt Flood

If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to be a shoo-in for the Cy…

— Justin Verlander

Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think…

— Stan Musial

I remember going from rookie ball to A, to double A, then to triple A. At every level it seemed like the…

— Derek Jeter

One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a…

— Tim Hudson

“Then again, what Cosimo had said was right: he was nothing but an overworked drone in a cube farm, a minor cog…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

I remember wearing the big oversized baseball and basketball jerseys and Timbaland boots. I was a tomboy growing up. I recently caught…

— Drew Sidora

I've always viewed myself as a better hitter than obviously a .200 or sub-.200 guy. That's what I view myself as. I…

— Kyle Schwarber

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to…

— Pete Rose

“I’m Evan, by the way,” he said as she reached up to slam the door. Megan almost choked. “No.” Evan laughed. “Uh…yeah.”…

— Kate Brian

“We picked up Grouper III and one of his buddies on the way to Media Day. The two of them were wearing…

— Vi Keeland

Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB.…

— Quavo

I've been around baseball for a really long time. I didn't know I could want to be here any more than I…

— Dave Martinez

I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of…

— Thomas Boswell

Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of…

— Sammy Sosa

“DiMaggio's grace came to represent more than athletic skill in those years. To the men who wrote about the game, it was…

— David Halberstam

There is no second baseman in the game who can turn the double play better [than Mark Lemke]. Why are people always…

— Tom Glavine

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

— Herbert Hoover

I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

— Stephen Strasburg

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

— Dan Uggla

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

— Ken Harrelson

All the individual stuff is great, but I just want to win a World Series.

— Clayton Kershaw

To hit a home run is really hard. So why not enjoy it when we do it?

— Fernando Tatis Jr

Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres.

— James Siegel

“Maybe the Americans should have brought baseballs instead of bombs.”

— Ann E. Burg

It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.

— Gabe Paul

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

— Sam Rutigliano

Growing up, my favorite player was either Derek Jeter or Manny Ramirez.

— Cody Bellinger

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

— Reggie Jackson

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.

— Roger Clemens

I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

— Scott Rolen

I would like to come back in the World Series. And I want to pitch better.

— Yu Darvish