Baseball Quotes · Page 127

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

— Rickey Henderson

When you don't go deep in the ballgame, it's tough to just leave all the guys out there that are fighting still.

— Patrick Corbin

[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

— Eric Gagne

I came out on the losing end of a home-plate collision enough times that I truly had to consider the risk.

— Gabe Kapler

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.

— Roger Maris

I did enjoy baseball, and it was certainly something I liked to play, but hockey would become my No. 1 passion.

— Auston Matthews

At home, I'm definitely not watching golf. I'd rather be watching baseball, basketball, football, whatever it is.

— Brooks Koepka

He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

— Sandy Koufax

People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don't think about that Warren…

— Rollie Fingers

The unwritten rules of baseball are just that - unwritten, and should have no effect on how the game is played in…

— Carlos Correa

I'll always be grateful for the dream season of 1986. In a corner of my mind I will stand forever with my…

— Gary Carter

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the…

— Steve Garvey

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat…

— Andy Rooney

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an…

— Neville Cardus

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I…

— Callie Khouri

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me…

— Keith Hernandez

The devil made him do it: There's little question San Francisco radio talk-show host Larry Krueger deserved to be fired for calling…

— Felipe Alou

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out,…

— Willie Stargell

“Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and…

— Lori Wilde

“Between 1999 and 2002, the Yankees paid over three times what the A’s paid for the average player on their roster. The…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or…

— Dusty Baker

“I am convinced that being fully committed to the moment, without any worries about the past or projections into the future, is…

— Mariano Rivera

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the…

— Ernie Harwell

You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and…

— Sterling W Sill

Just having the opportunity to play baseball and football at a major D-I level is a great opportunity.

— Kyler Murray

To win a World Series, the whole team has to be hot, everything has to go your way.

— Ken Griffey Jr

I played baseball when I was in junior high, but that's the last time I played baseball.

— Kevin Harvick

I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.

— Chuck Jones

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

— Albert Pujols

My baseball is about the way I go out and play the game and enjoy it. That's literally all I focus on.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

You usually feel a little bit better when you are hitting a few more homers. That's just the way it goes.

— Buster Posey

Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms.

— Goose Gossage

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

— Roger Kahn

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— Axel Morales

As an infielder, I know how tough it is to catch a ball that's a line drive right at you in between.

— Carlos Correa

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

— Bill Veeck

The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.

— Jane Leavy

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

— Jerry Coleman

I've always loved the infield, because I came up as an infielder.

— Ben Zobrist