Baseball Quotes · Page 79

However you score runs, whether it's walking and getting on base or whatever... I want to score runs.

— Marcus Semien

I grew up in Imperial Beach, surfing and going to the beach - my son plays baseball at the park.

— Sonny Sandoval

Everybody in the world is going to know I played 20 years for the Atlanta Braves, but that doesn't change my broadcast.

— John Smoltz

Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!

— Andy Roddick

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.

— George Brett

Make sure you value the outs. You get 27 in a nine-inning game. Each out is very important.

— Alex Cora

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

— David Ogilvy

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

— Joe Garagiola

Tearing it up in A ball and tearing it up in the big leagues are completely different. For that matter, tearing it…

— Chipper Jones

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

— Jim Bunning

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected…

— Bruce Sutter

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job…

— Jim Evans

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

— Branch Rickey

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two…

— Jim Evans

(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined…

— Nellie Fox

Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be…

— George Steinbrenner

I played ball for the Senators, Rangers, Indians, and Yankees in the ’70′s and ’80′s. Marvin Miller was a hero in our…

— Toby Harrah

The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in…

— Ernie Harwell

I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to…

— Tony La Russa

As good a hand-eye coordination I have playing the game of baseball, it is completely different out here, completely different style of…

— Chipper Jones

The Rays are kind of the envy of the industry based on so many good arms with so much good stuff and…

— Joe Maddon

There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city,…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened…

— O. Henry

“You can’t hit the ball if you don’t swing, Trout! That’s twice in a row!” Unfortunately we were only two rows away…

— Kelly Oram

You have to learn how to become your pitching coach, if you don't, you don't last.

— John Smoltz

I think flexibility in general is something that needs to be reinforced, and not only baseball players but all sports.

— Jake Arrieta

I don't know how the 'Richie' started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues.

— Richie Allen

I think the Angels could use me the most. The Angels don't have a day-to-day first baseman.

— Rod Carew

How much exactly does it cost to buy a Mexican baseball team, ten bucks and a burrito?

— Danny Mcbride

Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors - that there is racism in baseball.

— Frank Robinson

Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.

— Chet Huntley

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

— Ernest Hemingway

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.

— Frederick Wilcox

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

— Max Scherzer

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

— Ernie Harwell

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

— Charley Pride

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

— Don Drysdale

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

— Al Leiter

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

— Scott Rogowsky