Baseball Quotes · Page 87

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.

— Yogi Berra

I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.

— Yogi Berra

He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.

— Bill Dickey

Never Let The Fear Of Striking Out Keep You From Playing The Game<3

— Anonymous

When our power swing's not there, how do we win a ballgame? We gotta find other ways to execute.

— Marcus Semien

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

— Jerry Coleman

With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!

— Jerry Coleman

But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.

— Milton Bradley

I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine.…

— Doug Harvey

Most people have been on a baseball diamond and a basketball court. At least once in their life, they've walked across a…

— Thomas Hauser

You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It…

— Terry Francona

I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors…

— Mark Teixeira

There's a lot of baseball players who give their best effort all of the time. But one kind of gets away from…

— Ronald Acuna Jr

It's sort of like baseball - the more you know about baseball, the more you get into a baseball game. NASCAR is…

— Michael Waltrip

You’re not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You’re going to be more wrong than right. You just have…

— Les Wexner

“What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch. Where others wrote, they talked. Where others waited,…

— Stan Musial

“Do you know how crazy that made me? I’m trying to concentrate on my fucking fucking ball baseball game and all I…

— J. Sterling

I'll (Phil Rizzuto) never forget September 6, 1950. I got a letter threatening me, Hank Bauer, Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize. It…

— Phil Rizzuto

“Vowels were something else. He didn't like them, and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed…

— Jerry Spinelli

Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything…

— Don Yaeger

The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“As early as 1999, Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (“Bud”) Selig had taken to calling the Oakland A’s success “an aberration,”…

— Michael Lewis

Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far.…

— Bobby Cox

I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I…

— Artie Lange

We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.

— Herb Caen

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

— John Thorn

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad…

— Ted Williams

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

— Phil Jackson

It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

— Fay Vincent

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate

— Dale Murphy

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

— Jim Evans

Never let your fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

— Anonymous

I follow the Cubs. Only when they play the Nationals do I have a conflict.

— Ivo Daalder

If I didn't play baseball, I would probably study accounting.

— Carlos Correa

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers'…

— Magic Johnson

Baseball has been very good to me, but baseball has evolved into a hybrid of work and passion.

— Joey Votto

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

— Rickey Henderson

I am extremely sorry for the stress and confusion I have brought on the Braves organization.

— John Rocker

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

— Babe Ruth