Baseball Quotes · Page 128

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

— Jeff Garlin

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. They're all different.

— Tom Seaver

I strive to be the best shortstop I can be and WAR is a great stat to look at when evaluating the…

— Carlos Correa

I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it.

— Yogi Berra

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

— Robert Moog

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

— Robert Frost

What I've always tried to do, whether it's the NBA or baseball or golf, is be charged with getting the color.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

Major league hitters have more power. But Japanese hitters are very good at making contact. I don't like either.

— Yu Darvish

I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I…

— Tim Hudson

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

— Brad Lidge

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

— Michael Wilbon

I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No.1. The thing I do know is that every…

— Adam Wainwright

Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the…

— Ford Frick

I probably would have played baseball if I had stayed in California... But I like Oklahoma better now. Football is bigger here.…

— Troy Aikman

“Zik spits into the dirt in from of home plate, his own little ritual. He digs in and grits his teeth, snarling…

— Barry Lyga

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You…

— Dave Winfield

“You can say, 'Well, if they tore down Fenway Park, we can build a new one.' But you wouldn’t build it right.…

— Tom Boswell

“But baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric - not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus…

— Chad Harbach

I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I…

— Leon Wagner

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was…

— James Caan

I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him…

— Curt Young

For several years, I have had my eye on second baseman Del Pratt of St. Louis. I cannot say that he is…

— Jacob Ruppert

“It was like the baseball gods were showing off just for him, in honor of his first day of big league baseball.…

— Tucker Elliot

I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been a very strong, dominant position. And I felt that if I…

— Alex Rodriguez

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

— Garth Brooks

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

— Cass McCombs

Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.

— Tommy Lasorda

We're all blessed, as baseball players, to be playing this game, especially to make a living at it.

— Marcus Semien

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

— Carl Yastrzemski

“ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.”

— Anthony Liccione

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

— Curt Schilling

Ever since I signed, I've wanted to do great things in baseball.

— Carlos Correa

My first baseball game was a Cubs game at Wrigley Field... I really wanted to be a boy.

— Emily Wickersham

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

— Tug McGraw

It's good to see a kid that young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

— Jorge Posada

Interviewer: What do you like about baseball? Cabrera: I like to hit. I like to field. Did I say I like to…

— Miguel Cabrera

What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

— Grover Cleveland

“A soft moan escapes me, making him smile even more. He's too good at this.”

— Collette West

Renko has just about had it. Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.

— Jerry Coleman

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

— Joe DiMaggio