I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost… — Chief Bender Copy Share Image
I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits.… — Dontrelle Willis Copy Share Image
I've always been one to want a fair contest between bat and ball even as a batter, so if that's taken away… — Steve Smith Copy Share Image
Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love… — Jose Peralta Copy Share Image
Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players… — Ralph Kiner Copy Share Image
“That moment, when you first lay eyes on that field — The Monster, the triangle, the scoreboard, the light tower Big Mac… — Jayson Stark Copy Share Image
“There is something special about baseball that goes far deeper than being a game. It is the father-son relationship that is built,… — John Passaro Copy Share Image
Look at baseball, with its defensive shifts - outfielders looking at cards on the field much like a quarterback would. It's possible… — Tony Khan Copy Share Image
The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in… — Alfonso Ribeiro Copy Share Image
I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I'd be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat… — Mike Trout Copy Share Image
Baseball shaded my entire outlook on life, because that's how I first saw the world. I looked at everything, even today, through… — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
When I was in third grade I told my parents, 'I want to go to a bilingual school so I can learn… — Carlos Correa Copy Share Image
“Life is also a lot like baseball. It’s timeless, boring, and if you’re not paying attention, you could get hit in the… — Fred Stoller Copy Share Image
Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder… — Ken Macha Copy Share Image
When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was… — Lloyd Waner Copy Share Image
I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you… — Zach LaVine Copy Share Image
My first big league game, I stood at shortstop and I got goose bumps. Then I started panicking about having a ball… — Corey Seager Copy Share Image
Im a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A change up which sinks down and… — Justin Verlander Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
What's wrong with being a two-sport athlete? You've got Deion Sanders. You've got Bo Jackson. You've got Michael Jordan; he wasn't a… — Roy Nelson Copy Share Image
It's hard to be a clubhouse guy without being a great guy. I mean, the nature of the job is, you know,… — Terry Francona Copy Share Image
I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life:… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
I'm a big Geena Davis fan. I have a Geena Davis-signed baseball, which is funny because I don't get signatures from most… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so… — Tony Oliva Copy Share Image
The whole goal is to put some barrels on the baseball and hope good things happen. Sometimes it turns into doubles, sometimes… — Corey Seager Copy Share Image
I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball,… — Frank Thomas Copy Share Image
Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
During a lot of my struggles in the minor leagues, when I got upset and tried to do more, it just made… — Max Fried Copy Share Image
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
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Connie entered the game when it was a game for roughnecks. He saw it become respectable, he lived to be a symbol… — Connie Mack Copy Share Image
It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible.… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Particularly when I'm batting, I don't really hear anything that's going on. I block it all out. Maybe a little bit when… — Steve Smith Copy Share Image
I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the… — Stan Musial Copy Share Image
I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
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