Baseball Quotes · Page 70

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball

— Barry Bonds

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

— Leigh Steinberg

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

— Jack Canfield

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

— Nate Silver

The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

— John McGraw

Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.

— George Kell

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

— Maggie Lawson

My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.

— Oscar Taveras

I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making…

— Justin Morneau

You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound…

— C. J. Wilson

No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when…

— Ted Williams

I don't care how you get the outs. It doesn't matter to me how bad it looks, how good it looks, how…

— Clayton Kershaw

I was a baseball player and a football player at Stanford, so I didn't play a lot of golf in college. I…

— John Elway

My whole life, baseball was my first love. I was gonna go play college, but during my senior year I tore my…

— Morgan Wallen

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I…

— Jackie Robinson

I know my Dad's a National League guy. I'm an American League guy. I tell him all the time we got better…

— Ken Griffey Jr

What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some…

— Mark Fidrych

I don't think I'm a home run hitter. Most of my home runs are line drives. If I hit it, thanks God.…

— Robinson Cano

Agents are probably going to hate me for saying it... You're not very valuable when you're making $20 million. When you're Mike…

— Mark Teixeira

Sometimes you go to home plate, and you have an idea, like a clear idea, of what they're going to throw to…

— Jose Altuve

Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there's a close play on first base, they…

— Pete Rose

Before I was drafted by the Red Sox, I really didn't know that much about them, but in talking to people, they…

— Jacoby Ellsbury

“True, [Gary Nolan] might not strike fear into the hearts of all you free-swinging power hitters out there—at least not in the…

— Tucker Elliot

“And in that moment he felt- for the first time that optimistic and cheerful boy allowed himself to feel- how badly made…

— Michael Chabon

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

— Erma Bombeck

“I watch basketball like I watch baseball: I don’t. I’d much rather watch grass grow. Actually, golf isn’t that bad.”

— Jarod Kintz

What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.

— Billy Martin

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.

— Jerry Coleman

Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.

— Mickey Mantle

My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.

— Mark Teixeira

I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system.

— Ozzie Guillen

If we keep continuously putting up good at-bats, the next guy will come through.

— Alex Bregman

Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

— Omar N. Bradley

I closely follow football (and basketball and baseball) for the right reasons, not the alarmingly irrelevant ones.

— Skip Bayless

I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

— Rickey Henderson

I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

— Pete Rose

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

— Garth Brooks

Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art.

— James Naughton

When a team is not winning, someone must suffer. It's the same in baseball or anything else.

— George Mikan

Waking up every day and coming to the ballpark and playing baseball ... that's a good feeling.

— Jason Heyward