Baseball Quotes · Page 89

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

— Bob Uecker

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

— Sargent Shriver

“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics.”

— Charles Krauthammer

To some people the limp gloves, the smelly shoes, and the sturdy bat is just a game. But to me it's a…

— Anonymous

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game…

— Babe Ruth

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

— Ian Botham

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

— Yogi Berra

I was getting ready way too late and the ball was beating me to the strike zone.?

— Jose Bautista

I am a bat freak. Even if I have one match bat I carry eight bats to make my kit look heavy.…

— Hardik Pandya

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could…

— John M. Culkin

Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like…

— Dave Winfield

“Nick said. “Failing at school, failing at baseball…” The last part just came out, one last part of this he couldn’t stop…

— Mike Lupica

I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but…

— Moses Malone

There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There were other really large cities that…

— Frank Deford

Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and…

— Jerry Jones

Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep,…

— Russell Baker

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into…

— Joshua Ferris

Since its beginnings, baseball has been guided by an invisible hand. A set of unwritten rules that all players are expected to…

— Carlos Correa

There is only one Mariano Rivera. There wont be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one…

— Jorge Posada

The hats of all eras thrill me. People don't wear them anymore. So when you see an outfit completed by a hat…

— Ruth E. Carter

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or…

— Bob Feller

A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune…

— Temple Grandin

Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the…

— Alfonso Soriano

You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.

— Rocky Colavito

I think Shohei Ohtani is worth $500 million. He's a phenomenon never seen before in the MLB history. He can do it all.

— Manny Ramirez

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

— Stephen King

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.

— Don Cooper

I don't consider football fun. It's not like a water park or a baseball game.

— Chris Borland

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the…

— Joe Garagiola

If on-base percentage is so important, then why don't they put it up on the scoreboard?

— Jeff Francoeur

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

— Frank Robinson

If I'm ready to hit early, if I get fooled, then whatever. I've still got two more strikes.

— J. D. Martinez

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

— Frank Abagnale

I loved baseball, and I was the best at basketball. Golf was sort of third on my list.

— Gary Woodland

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.

— Red Barber

As soon as I finished skating, watching video of me stealing baseball bags was funny.

— Eddy Alvarez

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

— Carl Yastrzemski