Baseball Quotes · Page 73

Can't change stupid but you can rearange they face with a bat

— Marky

The battle between bat and ball is a one-on-one thing. I love that stuff, but you play it in a team.

— Alastair Cook

The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.

— Luis Tiant

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

— Mickey Mantle

Usually when you get on the sweet spot of the bat, you don't really feel it.

— Aaron Judge

And you learn [how to win] starting in the minor leagues, by winning day in and day out.

— Eric Byrnes

I need enough room to eventually throw a baseball with a child; that's all the yard I need. That's all I want.

— Jason Isbell

When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe.

— Mark McGwire

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the…

— Donald Hall

Well, Bautista is very difficult guy to play. He has everything on his game and is never easy to beat one guy…

— Juan Martin del Potro

For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I…

— Marc Bulger

If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad…

— Billy Butler

I think I try to separate every single play, because like I said, if you're 0 for 3 with three Ks, the…

— Trea Turner

On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to…

— Nellie Fox

Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to…

— David Grann

Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a…

— Graig Nettles

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get…

— Babe Ruth

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The…

— Dave Winfield

The overall thinking of the shortstop covers the overall context of the ballgame. You have to know the count they'll hit-and-run on.…

— Lou Boudreau

“Freddie Freeman led all Braves’ starters with a (.282) batting average in 2011. Not bad for a rookie. Then again, this is…

— Tucker Elliot

The reason we had an all-black outfield in '51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a legitimate replacement. So…

— Monte Irvin

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could…

— Eddie Vedder

If you are worshipping false gods-such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or…

— Hartman Rector, Jr

I made the Dixie Heights High School baseball team as an 8th grader and went on to have a very successful career.…

— Graham Taylor

My dad, since I was growing up, has always taught me that I need to keep my mouth shut and just play…

— Alex Bregman

I watched a little bit of Altuve - how he hits, the pitches that he hits.

— Trea Turner

My ex? Yeah I'd still hit that... But with a car or a baseball bat! ;)

— KiKi Strack

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

— Mickey Mantle

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch…

— Rachel Griffiths

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

— Babe Ruth

You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

— Vernon Wells

I feel really good in the box when I get an AB in the first inning. I feel like it just starts…

— Alex Bregman

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

— Bill Lee

“Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.”

— Red Smith

To understand him you had to understand this: he wasn't human.

— Joe Dugan

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

— Khaled Hosseini

A line drive to the warning track on one pitch, I'll take that over a strikeout any day.

— Clayton Kershaw

“He pitched 13 times in the postseason without walking a batter or blowing a save.”

— Anonymous

I took notes a lot as a baseball player, and I take notes a lot as a golfer.

— John Smoltz

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

— Don Drysdale