Baseball Quotes · Page 130

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

— Reggie Jackson

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

— Marsha Warfield

It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

— Billy Mays

When we [the Braves] won the World Series in '95, I went nuts. I mean, that was my team.

— Jeff Francoeur

Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.

— Pete Rose

I'm never going to criticize any umpires or anything, because they're a big part of the game.

— Dave Martinez

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

— Doug Harvey

I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they…

— Harry S. Truman

The pitch count situatio-it doesn't matter if you throw 120 or 80, whatever. It's the quality of pitches that you throw.

— Eli Manning

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's…

— Albert Pujols

Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in…

— Prince Fielder

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good…

— Ted Williams

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may…

— Vince Gill

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who…

— Jonathan Frakes

I learned a hell of a lot from my co-star, Kurt Russell. He's one of my closest friends and was one of…

— Tim Matheson

I don't try for strikeouts, but batters just swing and miss. I'd exchange strikeouts for more innings. As a starter, my job…

— Johan Santana

“The beauty of baseball is multidimensional, appealing to the eye and the mind. There is beauty, for instance, in its geometry, the…

— Tom Verducci

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way.…

— Thomas Boswell

“I believe baseball and the Church are deeply kindred spirits—both feature obscure rules that make sense only to initiates, both have communions…

— Robert E. Barron

I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio) wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem,…

— Willie Mays

It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a…

— Jocko Willink

Baseball is a set of individuals doing their thing in the same team, but it's much more individual. In basketball people are…

— Steve Ballmer

People think that that's an easy job, it's just get behind that desk and put that tie on and just talk baseball.…

— Alex Cora

I don't think I've changed very much. I think I'm the same kid that I was when I got here. When I…

— Alex Bregman

Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

— Jerry Coleman

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

— Pete Rose

Good hitters don't become intimidated. They become infuriated.

— Ken Singleton

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in…

— Andy Pettitte

“A freak who thought about death and murder twenty-four-seven, not football games and baseball”

— Tillie Cole

We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.

— Tyler Winklevoss

Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to…

— Leo Durocher

I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

— Mick Foley

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every…

— Mickey Mantle

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

— Jerry Coleman

Anyone who says that softball is a boring game to watch isn't looking at the right things.

— Yvonne Zipter

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

— Jimmy Breslin

As a player, you can't express ideas and opinions as easily as when you're doing a ballgame.

— Troy Aikman

If I hear Bowie Kuhn say just once more he's doing something for the betterment of baseball, I'm going to throw-up.

— Sparky Anderson

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

— Bill Klem

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

— Tom Hicks