Baseball Quotes · Page 5

The crowd makes the ballgame.

— Ty Cobb

I love second base.

— Ben Zobrist

I'm in the major league now.

— Pitbull

Where do you want it?

— Don Drysdale

Speed slows down the game.

— Tim McCarver

I know how to pitch.

— Max Scherzer

Baseball is the life.

— Steve Garvey

“A baseball club for girls?”

— Emily J. Proctor

If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.

— Jerry Coleman

The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.

— Ron Luciano

When you allow stolen bases, that changes the game.

— Max Scherzer

After giving up a home run in an old timers game:

— Don Drysdale

I had more offers in football than baseball.

— Ken Griffey Jr

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

— Frank Perdue

Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.

— Hank Aaron

I was always a big Ken Griffey Jr. fan growing up.

— Brook Lopez

I love coaching football, don't get me wrong. But I just love baseball.

— Rex Ryan

The pitch shot is a very important one for everyone. The trick is to get the ball landing softly.

— Shane Lowry

If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.

— Tommy Lasorda

He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

— George Steinbrenner

I never think Im going to make a double play in the outfield. But I did it.

— Alfonso Soriano

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

— Ty Cobb

I was given a gift to throw a baseball. I didn't do anything to deserve that.

— Clayton Kershaw

Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.

— John Kessel

I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never…

— Gaylord Perry

When something happens to a pitcher, whether it's mentally or physically, it's a lot more fun to do the things you want…

— John Smoltz

Guys don't want to get to two strikes, so you have to make quality pitches early in the count, try to get…

— Stephen Strasburg

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to…

— Eric Heiden

Whether baseball or football, we're tasked in front offices with making decisions under uncertainty. How do you corral that uncertainty in a…

— Paul DePodesta

While American ballplayers from Mickey Mantle to David Ortiz have flipped their bats, the act is still perceived as a great offense…

— Mina Kimes

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to…

— Josh Beckett

I love the game of baseball. Like I love playing, I'm just not good at - I don't enjoy the media part…

— Anthony Rendon

“Sometimes a strikeout means that the slugger’s girlfriend just ran off with the UPS driver. Sometimes a muffed ground ball means that…

— David James Duncan

What doing baseball means to me is it's a real touchpoint with my late father. This is what he did for thirty…

— Ernie Johnson Jr

We have our great days and our bad days. No matter what bad day I go through or strike out four times…

— Anthony Rendon

“The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams…

— Michael Lewis

I very much related to the idea of sexual identity and how it doesn't have to be black and white. When I…

— Dee Rees

Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to…

— Frederick Buechner

When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from…

— Bill Murray

Our cul de sac we always had roller hockey going on, we had the big backyard, our neighbors had big backyards that…

— T. J. Watt