Baseball Quotes · Page 80

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

— Chipper Jones

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

— Brooks Koepka

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

— Fay Vincent

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

— Robert Benchley

“Sparky Anderson wasn’t just my favorite manager … he was my mom’s favorite manager.”

— Tucker Elliot

I've always wanted to throw a first pitch out, and nothing like doing it near your hometown where you live.

— Danny Amendola

Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.

— Jerry Coleman

The Marlins were close to signing me, but in the end my wish was to come back to the Yankees.

— Aroldis Chapman

When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a…

— Jim Lee

I see the hitter when he's moved in the box, like when he's moved closer to the plate or changed his stance.…

— Mariano Rivera

If it weren't for Jesus, I would not be where I am today and my life would be without purpose. I've heard…

— Albert Pujols

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in…

— David Cone

I just loved officiating, and I hope what I did helped make it better. That's what I tell young umpires: you can…

— Doug Harvey

“[B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played... Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its…

— Thomas Boswell

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed…

— Maya Angelou

The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and…

— Tom Watson

When I was with the Yankees in 1978, we were playing Baltimore at Yankee Stadium, and the score was 3 - 3…

— Reggie Jackson

“A brick is a biographical film in which a young orphan brick from the wrong side of the track grows up to…

— Nicole McKay

“Here’s how you practice shrieking like an insane woman who has been locked in an attic for a great many years: You…

— Gary D. Schmidt

As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the…

— Bob Feller

I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport…

— John Hodgman

I consider Billy Keeler, Mike Tiernan, Ed Delihanty and Larrie La Joie the toughest hitters I had to pitch to, but I…

— Kid Nichols

“If T. S. Eliot had stayed in St Louis, he would never have held that April was the cruelest month. Well, unless…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

Unfortunately, given the rules of the American political game, people who try to participate by self-righteously refusing to identify with one or…

— Rick Perlstein

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

— Irvine Welsh

Watching guys win the World Series looks like a lot of fun. I'd kind of like to do that.

— Clayton Kershaw

I grew up in Southern California, not too far from Dodger Stadium. And my entire family loves baseball.

— Nolan Arenado

There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.

— David Wright

Bases loaded and nobody out is a pretty impossible situation.

— Clayton Kershaw

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

— Todd Helton

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

— Patrick Corbin

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

— Derek Jeter

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

— Steve Goodman

“I play my position, heart held behind my back-- I'm the pitcher.. sometimes I throw them no hitters..”

— Shanica Stewart

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

— Red Ruffing

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

— Michael Lewis

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

— Aaron Boone

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

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

— Anthony Rendon

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

— Hideki Matsui