Baseball Quotes · Page 77

The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.

— Rocky Bridges

There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

— Tommy John

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

— Johnny Pesky

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

— Bob Costas

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

— Lisa Desrochers

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

— Scott Kazmir

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

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

— Dean Martin

The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a…

— Frank Crawford

I've always been on teams that hit for power, so you don't want to run into outs. But when the pitchers or…

— Marcus Semien

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is…

— James Patrick Murray

It's a matter of how the bullpen looks as to whether Bell goes in there or Crow goes in there. Bell won't…

— Wayne Graham

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk…

— Roger Angell

Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him…

— Tony Gwynn

Just being able to experience that caliber of a level of a sport, the highest level of a sport, has helped me…

— Eddy Alvarez

In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

— Goose Gossage

It started with 'A League of Their Own.' I mean, to me, if you played softball or baseball as a girl growing…

— Jessica Mendoza

When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I…

— Tim Hudson

“Baseball isn't just a game. It's life being played out on a field—a field of dreams—on diamonds of green, where players pursuing…

— Tom Tatum

Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play…

— Billy Evans

I try to keep it real simple. I try not to add a lot of frosting on what I'm doing. Just take…

— Tony Gwynn

Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already…

— Rachel Caine

The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch,…

— Phil Humber

Sometimes we're going to take marginal pitches on the edges and get called out on strike, but we want to get a…

— Alex Bregman

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

— Whitey Herzog

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

— Warren Spahn

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

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

— Warren Buffett

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

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Pete Rose

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.

— Herbert Hoover

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

— Chuck Tanner

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

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

— Jerry Coleman

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

There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from The New York Times.

— George W. Bush

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

— John McGraw

You know I could get hit with a baseball bat and it don't mean nothing.

— Jorge Masvidal

There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.

— Jared Leto

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

— Alex Rodriguez