If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
I think we're in a new era of baseball where it's not OK to have a lumbering slugger in the corner of… — Joey Votto Copy Share Image
Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral… — David Grann Copy Share Image
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
The clubhouses are pretty... uh... Outdated. You get pretty crammed in there for three or four days. But it still is one… — Buster Posey Copy Share Image
The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied… — Ned Colletti Copy Share Image
I don't really know how many pitches I threw. It's kind of what I usually do in a bullpen, minus about, I… — Clayton Kershaw Copy Share Image
I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying… — Billy Williams Copy Share Image
My older brother, he did everything. He played baseball, he played basketball. Just being able to watch him as a youngster, wanting… — Ed Reed Copy Share Image
There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I remember one time I'm batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 - 1, it's the bottom of the ninth,… — Bob Uecker Copy Share Image
Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I… — Mike Piazza Copy Share Image
Brimming with fortitude, Wrigley wears its ability to brave the elements like a badge of honor. More so than any other ballpark… — Gabe Kapler Copy Share Image
It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on… — Monte Irvin Copy Share Image
We (Derek Jeter and I) want to kill each other. I think we both drive each other and motivate each other. But,… — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts… The… — George Foster Copy Share Image
This game's a lot easier early on in your career because people haven't seen you play. Things got a lot harder when… — James Anderson Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time, 'What was it like to face Mariano Rivera?' And, the only thing I can think of… — Chipper Jones Copy Share Image
The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the… — Kid Nichols Copy Share Image
Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay… — Bill Lee Copy Share Image
If everyone's on the same page, doesn't matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a… — Rob Gronkowski Copy Share Image
It's hard for me when I'm not getting on base too much. I feel like I'm not contributing to the ball club.… — Jose Reyes Copy Share Image
I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the… — Dizzy Dean Copy Share Image
I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where… — Bryce Harper Copy Share Image
Defensively the Red Sox are a lot like Stonehenge. They are old, they don't move, and no one is certain why they… — Dan Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
I realized early on in my life that I couldn't hit the curve or throw the 50-yard post pattern, so talking about… — Rich Eisen Copy Share Image
I hit all over the lineup in Oakland and I think that I had my best year hitting leadoff, and that was… — Marcus Semien Copy Share Image
“By any reasonable standard (i.e. he didn’t cheat), Aaron is one of the greatest sluggers in baseball history—and there shouldn’t even be… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
As a starting pitcher your job is to answer the phone when it rings and fill up innings all the other stats… — Chris Sale Copy Share Image
Working on the ABC movie 'Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige,'' which we filmed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was a… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when… — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
As a kid, I played not just basketball but baseball, softball, tackle football - anything the guys were playing, I wanted to… — Dawn Staley Copy Share Image
“Tampa Bay, like any other expansion team, toiled and persevered in its infancy—but today, minus the Devil, the Rays have become one… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind… — Barry Bonds Copy Share Image
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day… — William Feather Copy Share Image
I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays.… — Phil Niekro Copy Share Image
Watching a baseball game on television is like chasing the great white whale in a goldfish bowl. It trivializes everything: men two… — Ward Just Copy Share Image
John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really… — Jorge Posada Copy Share Image
If I know it's going over the fence, I am going to start jogging and just get around the bases and get… — Aaron Judge Copy Share Image
