You usually feel a little bit better when you are hitting a few more homers. That's just the way it goes. — Buster Posey Copy Share Image
We're all blessed, as baseball players, to be playing this game, especially to make a living at it. — Marcus Semien Copy Share Image
Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman. — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible. — Carl Yastrzemski Copy Share Image
A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Major league hitters have more power. But Japanese hitters are very good at making contact. I don't like either. — Yu Darvish Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's… — Andrew McCutchen Copy Share Image
I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be… — Ken Fox Copy Share Image
I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say,… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
Like I know, if my average is low, to get more hits. It's a pretty simple fix; not that it's easy, but… — Brandon Crawford Copy Share Image
Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum,… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
I was 8 or 10, and I was a catcher, and my grandmother said to me, 'I want you to be like… — Kyle Schwarber Copy Share Image
When you sign your name on the dotted line, it's more than just playing baseball. You have a responsibility to make good… — Tony Gwynn Copy Share Image
The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
There's not a yes or no answer to that. We want to prepare as a team to be as good as we… — Jon Daniels Copy Share Image
I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, my parents were very careful about who was “acceptable” as my heroes if you will, because they… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
I think these are the most difficult games to win, just every at-bat, every pitch, it seemed like it was important. The… — Clayton Kershaw Copy Share Image
I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits).… — Carl Yastrzemski Copy Share Image
“Alex stood near Tiger Stadium. It was closed down now and abandoned, a ghost of itself. Alex loved baseball and lamented the… — Gary Hardwick Copy Share Image
When I step onto the mound for the first time in a game, I remove my cap and look under the brim… — Sean Doolittle Copy Share Image
