Baseball Quotes · Page 25

At my best I was as good as anyone.

— Mickey Mantle

If a pitcher makes a mistake inside, I'm going to hit it.

— Miguel Cabrera

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

— Yogi Berra

The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

— John Arlott

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

— Bob Uecker

Some people are born on third base.

— Barry Switzer

You don't forget a name like Buster Posey.

— Brandon Crawford

It's great to be young and a Yankee!

— Waite Hoyt

I used to be a Dodgers fan but I can't root for them anymore.

— Nolan Arenado

I'm not perfect. Nobody's perfect. But I love baseball and I love to play hard.

— Adrian Beltre

As a hitter, you want to hit homers whenever you get the chance.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.

— Joe Buck

The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.

— Jerry Coleman

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

— Dizzy Dean

Well, anytime you're compared to Derek Jeter, it's the ultimate compliment.

— Buster Posey

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

— Leo Durocher

You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It…

— Terry Francona

There's a lot of baseball players who give their best effort all of the time. But one kind of gets away from…

— Ronald Acuna Jr

I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors…

— Mark Teixeira

Most people have been on a baseball diamond and a basketball court. At least once in their life, they've walked across a…

— Thomas Hauser

I, I could see a baseball diamond in my backyard. A house for my mother and a new car but I'll never…

— Jacob Latimore

When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.

— Smoky Joe Wood

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was…

— Adam Sandler

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been…

— Babe Ruth

I think, as a lot of kids, I had a dream to play Major League Baseball, but I think I was pretty…

— Buster Posey

“[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again,…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung…

— Alex Bregman

My first and foremost goal when I joined the Yankees was to win the world championship. Certainly it's been a long road…

— Hideki Matsui

I didn't ever realize that my ceiling would be this high, that I would be able to play at the major-league level.…

— Ben Zobrist

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I…

— Tobin Bell

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning.…

— John Podhoretz

“Gary Bell is nicknamed Ding Dong. Of course. What’s interesting about it is that “Ding Dong” is what the guys holler when…

— Jim Bouton

“Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.”

— David Ogilvy

I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

— Matt Long

I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.

— Tom Seaver

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

— Robin Yount

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, it was baseball in my family.

— Alex Cora

They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do.

— Roy Oswalt

I didn't really say everything I said.

— Yogi Berra

Everything is contagious in baseball.

— Rex Hudler