Baseball Quotes · Page 86

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

— Will Rogers

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

— Mickey Mantle

My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

— Johnny Bench

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

— David Meltzer

I think as a kid that you just look forward to winning the World Series and contributing in any way.

— Max Fried

“He hoped they could meet in Boston soon to 'drink or eat or whatever.' Franzen in turn suggested a Red Sox game.”

— D.T. Max

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

— Carlos Beltran

I know I can be a way better player as a shortstop than I can at third.

— Manny Machado

I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been…

— Javier Bardem

Coaching and playing in New York is different than any city. You see it in baseball - superstars play for the Yankees…

— David Lee

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was…

— Adam Sandler

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been…

— Babe Ruth

Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was…

— Jane Leavy

Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's…

— Joe Maddon

“If you don't have a catcher, the ball goes to the backstop. Casey Stengel explaining why the Mets selected mediocre catcher Hobie…

— Casey Stengel

The Major Leagues are a different game. Initially it's survival, but the more you play and more experience you get, the sky…

— Marcus Semien

We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old,…

— Bobby Doerr

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over…

— Jackie Robinson

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But…

— Trey Parker

Your heart, my friend, is the size of a stadium. If you try to fill it with small things - a new…

— Roy H. Williams

Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason…

— Eric Holder

When I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't know it was a singing movie. I didn't read the script. I go to…

— Adam DeVine

“The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that…

— Gary Moore

“People with proven track records in a certain area would get more believability, or decision-making weight, within that area. By recording these…

— Ray Dalio

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

— Albert Theodore Powers

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

— Red Barber

Wrestling isn't looked upon like the other sports of football, baseball, basketball and hockey.

— Bruno Sammartino

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

— Jerry Coleman

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

— Jerry Coleman

I'm not up there trying to go out there and just hit home runs.

— Kyle Schwarber

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

— Alvin Dark

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the…

— Casey Stengel

Wrestling, football, basketball, and baseball were the four things I was obsessed with as a kid.

— Tyrus

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.

— Shawn Wayans

My size hasn't prevented me from doing anything at shortstop.

— Corey Seager

Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.

— Effa Manley

I don't just want to be a pull hitter or something like that.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

If I wanted to win all my fights, I would be a Yankee fan. I'm a Cub fan.

— Mike Quigley

I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

— Vladimir Guerrero