Baseball Quotes · Page 64

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

— Pete Rose

“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.”

— Amit Kalantri

All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

— Warren Buffett

I wasn't ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn't know my way around.

— Roberto Clemente

Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

— Warren Spahn

Sometimes, this game makes you forget how good of a hitter I am, being able to hit the ball to all parts…

— Fernando Tatis Jr

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

— Jerry Coleman

If my life depended on it - if my daughter's life depended on it - I'd want Mariano Rivera closing. Wouldn't you?

— Alex Rodriguez

I don't think baseball is ever going to be the fast-paced game that football or basketball is. It's never going to be…

— Christian Yelich

From the time I went into baseball, I have always been handicapped by my hands, which are too small. I never saw…

— Pud Galvin

“The plan was simple. Once on the Plain of Idavoll, we were going to follow the immortal strategy of Ebby Calvin “Nuke”…

— Kevin Hearne

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the…

— Mickey Mantle

As a starter, you know when you're going to pitch. You prepare to pitch a certain day. As a closer, you wait…

— John Smoltz

They say I couldn't play football, I was too small. They say I couldn't play basketball, I wasn't tall. They say I…

— Lil Wayne

Ultimately, the goal of hitting is to get your mind out of the way and let your body take over - and…

— Stacey Nuveman

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't…

— David Cone

We had some pretty good at-bats off Carpenter. We just couldn't find any holes. That's the way it goes sometimes. We were…

— Craig Biggio

I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting for the other team, I’d marry you.” He…

— Ilona Andrews

Carlos Ruiz hascaught me a lot of bullpens, and he's really worked since he got here to try to learn the pitchers.…

— Clayton Kershaw

My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his…

— Lisa Unger

If you want to aspire to be any pitcher in the game right now, it's probably Madison Bumgarner. I really keep a…

— Tyler Beede

Your heart, my friend, is the size of a stadium. If you try to fill it with small things - a new…

— Roy H. Williams

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But…

— Trey Parker

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over…

— Jackie Robinson

We try to find chemistry; we don't do a lot of situational baseball.

— Dean Martin

Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.

— David Wright

I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.

— Scott Kazmir

“There’s no crying in baseball and no love in Hell. It’s just the rules.”

— Lisa Desrochers

When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.

— Bob Costas

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

— Whitey Herzog

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

— Bob Uecker

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

— Casey Stengel

The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.

— Ralph Kiner

Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.

— Richard Corliss

To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

— Ken Griffey, Jr

I know a little bit about a lot of things. I don't go very deep in any one field, except maybe '90s…

— Scott Rogowsky

I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

— Sammy Sosa

Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.

— Gerrit Cole

Baseball is such a sport of every day, grinding it out. You're going to have good weeks, bad weeks.

— Ryan Zimmerman

I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team…

— Jennie Finch