Baseball Quotes · Page 67

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter…

— Don Drysdale

Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.

— Charley Pride

If a ball is slightly out of the zone and it's still a hittable pitch, I'm letting it fly a little bit.

— Brandon Crawford

Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.

— Ernie Harwell

When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.

— Max Scherzer

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.

— Brooks Koepka

I don't play baseball for money; I play for love of the game.

— Chipper Jones

I got my first baseball cards as a four-year-old, the 1989 Topps set. I got every Topps set after that.

— Scott Rogowsky

He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in…

— Casey Stengel

For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there…

— Mariah Nelson

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened,…

— John McGraw

Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland…

— Gene Autry

“David had an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball that Kramer admired, and an unusual dedication to the Yankees for a guy that grew…

— Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to…

— Don Drysdale

My routine consists of being awake by 6 A.M., reading and educating myself more and more on the Bible followed by nine…

— Manny Ramirez

“We try to take it from one at-bat to the next, ya know it’s easier said than done, but all put together…

— Evan Longoria

Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything…

— Don Yaeger

“Vowels were something else. He didn't like them, and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed…

— Jerry Spinelli

I'll (Phil Rizzuto) never forget September 6, 1950. I got a letter threatening me, Hank Bauer, Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize. It…

— Phil Rizzuto

“Do you know how crazy that made me? I’m trying to concentrate on my fucking fucking ball baseball game and all I…

— J. Sterling

I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so…

— Anthony Edwards

I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see…

— George Brett

Everyone goes through those stretches. Everyone you talk to in this game, old coaches, old teammates, old players, whatnot, they all have…

— Anthony Rendon

All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at…

— Jonah Hill

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

— David Price

I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.

— Nia Jax

I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.

— Nate Corddry

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

— Hideki Matsui

I have never discussed a player contract with an agent and I like to think I never will.

— Walter O'Malley

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

— Mickey Mantle

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be,

— Mark Walter

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.

— Mickey Mantle

I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards.

— Tracy Morgan

The biggest thing was just working on fastball location and getting ahead of guys.

— Patrick Corbin

Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.

— Todd Helton

Point-blank, I don't want to raise a family in baseball. Maybe I just want to be normal.

— Anthony Rendon

I doubt many guys have played only shortstop for 1,600 games and pitched one game. I'm on a list by myself, I think.

— Brandon Crawford

Gramps was a baseball junkie. He passed on so much to all of us from a baseball standpoint.

— Aaron Boone

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

— Michael Lewis

You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.

— Red Ruffing