Baseball Quotes · Page 85

I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

— Harmon Killebrew

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball

— Barry Bonds

The key to hitting a lot of home runs as a player at Kauffman Stadium is that you'd better run into some…

— Billy Butler

That's the name of the game: preventing runs and scoring runs.

— Tommy Pham

Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?

— Alex Rodriguez

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

— Casey Stengel

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for…

— Al Spalding

In the movies, I never lost a fight. In baseball, I hardly ever won one.

— Gene Autry

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means?…

— Pete Rose

The number one priority is playing baseball. There are so many people in New York trying to get you to do this…

— Derek Jeter

I'd definitely say I've gotten better, especially better with strike-zone judgment. That's a huge part of the game of baseball.

— Xander Bogaerts

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier…

— Harrison Ford

I'm the leadoff hitter, it's my job to lead this team. I know people say the way I go is how the…

— Jose Reyes

I played baseball, was on the basketball team in high school, did crew at Hofstra, and randomly played ultimate frisbee, too. But…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

I, I could see a baseball diamond in my backyard. A house for my mother and a new car but I'll never…

— Jacob Latimore

When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.

— Smoky Joe Wood

The goals is to create a really high 'floor' for this organization, where the 'off' years are years where you might win…

— Theo Epstein

It makes no difference to me what kind of bat I have. For instance, I often grab the first bat I come…

— Joe Kelley

Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'.…

— Don Zimmer

“Seemingly every year at least one of the league’s top sluggers can be found in Boston’s lineup—and often times more than one.…

— Tucker Elliot

If you want to aspire to be any pitcher in the game right now, it's probably Madison Bumgarner. I really keep a…

— Tyler Beede

My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his…

— Lisa Unger

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball…

— Mike Royko

If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the…

— Edward Snowden

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

— Mickey Mantle

Personally, I think fans would rather watch a DH hit than a pitcher hit.

— Trevor Bauer

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

— D. B. Sweeney

Ultimately, baseball is just a game. It's not so much how you play, but how you represent him why you're playing.

— Clayton Kershaw

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

— Paul Dickson

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or…

— Anonymous

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

— Whitey Ford

You always dream about being on a baseball card. It's kind of funny when you finally see it.

— Alex Rodriguez

“The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.”

— Glenn Dickey

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

— Jerry Coleman

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning,

— Bob Feller

I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.

— Mark McGwire

You have to go up there, and it's you vs. the pitcher. No one's there to help you. That's how I go…

— J. D. Martinez

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

— Joe Garagiola

If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything.

— Chris Chambliss

I couldn't ask for better teammates, and the Pirate fans are the greatest in baseball.

— Roberto Clemente