Baseball Quotes · Page 56

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

— Mike Royko

I do not want to be a player who is known for hitting those 20-odd runs.

— Ravindra Jadeja

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

— Willie Stargell

Any time you go out to bat, you want to prepare as well as you can and try and commit your plans.

— Kane Williamson

The great hitters use the whole field, and that's a goal of mine.

— Mookie Betts

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

— Mark McGwire

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

— Alex Trebek

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a…

— Graig Nettles

Umpiring is a tough job. Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't want to be an umpire. You've got a split second…

— Glenn McGrath

I think you need to go to Triple-A for a while and experience big league pitching on the way down and prospects…

— Chipper Jones

I played soccer and baseball, and that's all. But what if I had been the best at like, ballet? And I didn't…

— Spencer Pratt

I remember, at least in Little League, we tried to be like everybody. So my first at-bat, I can be like Robinson…

— Juan Soto

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take…

— Pete Rose

Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to…

— Andy Van Slyke

“I like that name, that game too, though utterly valueless, the animal in us just sufficiently domesticated, our venomous American aggressiveness confined…

— Hayden Carruth

Obviously I wasn't playing well at the time. But as a player, you lie to yourself. You say, "There's nothing wrong. I'm…

— Prince Fielder

“Joe DiMaggio batted safely in 56 consecutive games in 1941, the same season Ted Williams batted .406—but did you know that also…

— Tucker Elliot

I could throw the ball hard, but at this level if you're not accurate, it's easy for batters to light you up…

— Yu Darvish

He means as much as Roberto Clemente does to Latin people. Thank God I had the opportunity to know him. I wish…

— Albert Pujols

Some of the best lessons that I've ever learned are on a ball field - basketball, football, baseball, golf. And I learned…

— Jon Gruden

There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really…

— Michael Kay

“All I had to do was make this guy happy. I’d take care of his cows and do manual labor for two…

— Abbi Glines

“Good game,” someone said, patting my shoulder. “Thanks,” I said, laughing. Then I felt arms come around me and pull me close.…

— Rachel Hawthorne

“It’s Curt Schilling and his bloody sock staring down the Yankees in the Bronx. It’s Derek Lowe taking the mound the very…

— Tucker Elliot

As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

— Derrek Lee

There's a hard shot to LeMaster, he throws Madlock into the dugout.

— Jerry Coleman

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few…

— Clayton Kershaw

I probably have more success in football, but baseball is a passion of mine, and I want to play as long as…

— Jameis Winston

“Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. —CHARLIE GEHRINGER”

— Lori Wilde

Everything revolves around baseball 24/7 during the baseball season.

— Carlos Correa

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

— Walt Whitman

I didn't want to be a catcher. It was thrust upon me, as they say in the classics.

— Mickey Cochrane

Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, then soccer, and basketball is... People don't really care about basketball.

— Yuta Watanabe

The only thing my father and I have in common is that our similarities are different.

— Dale Berra

I think if you're playing basketball, you're helping yourself for football or baseball.

— Sean Payton

I told him I wasn't tired. He told me, no, but the outfielders sure are.

— Jim Kern

Those huckleberries in the National League don't want to do anything that the American League wants to do.

— Phil Rizzuto

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

— Philip Roth

I had sex with a couple guys but it wasn't a baseball team. I saved that for my twenties.

— Chelsea Handler