Baseball Quotes · Page 62

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

— Nellie Fox

Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.

— Charles M. Schulz

Even at first base, if they throw me out there, I would know what to do.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

— Anonymous

Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.

— Smoky Joe Wood

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let…

— Mike Schmidt

Pitching for the Boston Red Sox proved to be one of the few challenges in my career that I was unable to…

— John Smoltz

“Worrying about things you can't control is a waste both on the baseball field and in life.”

— Tom Swyers

For me, that's the difference in good hitters and bad hitters. If you can stay in the zone and make them throw…

— Trea Turner

When I go to the plate, I think about putting the ball in play. It's important to get on base and get…

— Pedro Martinez

It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the…

— Barry Bonds

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

— Cam Gigandet

I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I transplanted my brain into 'HQ' and that's where the dark corners of my mind got exposed: Pop culture, '90s baseball, 'Simpsons,'…

— Scott Rogowsky

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with…

— Rob Sheffield

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a…

— Mike Piazza

Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad…

— Joe Torre

It's easier to go outside and play basketball. You can shoot around by yourself. Play pick-up. Whereas with baseball, no one likes…

— Anthony Rendon

Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I…

— Dan Gable

'Drive for Diversity' puts people behind the wheel that would never have had the opportunity. Nascar sponsors individual teams who have a…

— Brian France

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really…

— Michael Keaton

Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is…

— Branch Rickey

Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons…

— Chadwick Boseman

Honestly, as a baseball player, there's such a satisfaction in going out and trying to accomplish something with a group of guys…

— Buster Posey

Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.

— Thomas Boswell

Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going.

— Pete Conrad

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

— Anonymous

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

— Earl Weaver

A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.

— Bob Gibson

The mark of a good hitter is someone who hits the ball hard, often. And if you run into a few home…

— Lance Berkman

A lot of people say that you go to the outfield and just run and go get a ball, but it's still…

— Kyler Murray

Every single pitcher is making changes every single start. You can talk to any pitcher about this.

— Max Scherzer

“Born on third base, my daddy always said of the well off, and they think they hit a home run.”

— Mary Karr

That's what baseball is all about right there, a matter of will.

— Dusty Baker

I offer a proven track record in the big leagues that can hit left-handers or right-handers.

— Billy Butler

Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.

— Penny Marshall

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

— Jim Abbott

I'm a Reds fan. I signed up to be a Reds fan, I want to be a Reds fan.

— Joey Votto

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

— Joe Torre

I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.

— David Wright