When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I was a baseball player and a football player at Stanford, so I didn't play a lot of golf in college. I… — John Elway Copy Share Image
My whole life, baseball was my first love. I was gonna go play college, but during my senior year I tore my… — Morgan Wallen Copy Share Image
I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making… — Justin Morneau Copy Share Image
Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound… — C. J. Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't care how you get the outs. It doesn't matter to me how bad it looks, how good it looks, how… — Clayton Kershaw Copy Share Image
No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when… — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
“Out popped Paul Duffy, in plain clothes except for a state police windbreaker and a badge clipped to his belt. He looked… — William Landay Copy Share Image
Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never… — Monte Irvin Copy Share Image
I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability.… — Matt Diaz Copy Share Image
Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top. ... Then we had George Foster come… — Johnny Bench Copy Share Image
Ever since we discussed and became focused with the pitch count, it's getting worse. It's like if I told you every single… — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
The first MLB game I did was a Monday Night game, and no one really knew I was doing it. So walking… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
“Dave Concepción exceeded everyone’s expectations—everyone’s except, perhaps, his own. That’s because as a kid, Concepción idolized Major League Hall of Fame shortstop… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
When the ball is over the middle of the plate, the batter is hitting it with the sweet part of the bat.… — Don Drysdale Copy Share Image
I know my Dad's a National League guy. I'm an American League guy. I tell him all the time we got better… — Ken Griffey Jr Copy Share Image
The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I… — David Cone Copy Share Image
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be… — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to throw six or seven pitches just to be able to strike you out. I'm trying to do it… — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not,… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn't think you're safe when… — Larry Goetz Copy Share Image
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through… — Roger Maris Copy Share Image
Right now it looks like skating is done for me. I'm ready to move on. But if baseball doesn't work out and… — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game… — Jennie Finch Copy Share Image
The peacocking nature of baseball players and athletes in general - you're all kinda competing for who's got the most swagger. — Glen Powell Copy Share Image
Mistakes can happen. Sometimes they can build up over the course of an innings and put people even more on edge, which… — Moeen Ali Copy Share Image
“Billy was forever telling Paul that when you try to explain probability theory to baseball guys, you just end up confusing them.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in… — George Will Copy Share Image
This was my dream playing on TV. It was never to play in the Big Leagues. It was always to play on… — Francisco Lindor Copy Share Image
I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it,… — Satchel Paige Copy Share Image
You can't say it's good when guys out there are signing minor league deals and they would be big league players on… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
I mean, 30 out of 30 right fielders in the big leagues used to have a cannon. They would control the game… — Fernando Tatis Jr Copy Share Image
You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you… — Juan Marichal Copy Share Image
The Metrodome was built for football. Fans seated down the third-base line at a baseball game faced centerfield, so that they had… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
