His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade. — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced. — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1. — Trevor Hoffman Copy Share Image
Mike Trout. Jose Ramírez. Mookie Betts. All these guys walk, and they swing at strikes. — Alex Bregman Copy Share Image
Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him. — George Steinbrenner Copy Share Image
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We came out of the dugout for opening day and saw a fan holding up a sign: 'Wait 'Til Next Year” — Moe Drabowsky Copy Share Image
If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares… — Bernie Lincicome Copy Share Image
I usually don't look at at-bats where I get out. I look at my hits. I look at good swings I put… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could… — John M. Culkin Copy Share Image
Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but… — Moses Malone Copy Share Image
“Nick said. “Failing at school, failing at baseball…” The last part just came out, one last part of this he couldn’t stop… — Mike Lupica Copy Share Image
There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There were other really large cities that… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and… — Jerry Jones Copy Share Image
I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we don't have the luxury of being paid like NBA, NFL and soccer and baseball athletes. They have that cushion where… — Aljamain Sterling Copy Share Image
The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
If you reach a point where your entire farm system is in the big leagues, you've traded a couple guys for players… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few… — George Will Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t until 1959 that the Red Sox finally joined the rest of the major leagues and brought up a black player… — Ben Bradlee Jr Copy Share Image
I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image