Baseball Quotes · Page 90

The Yankees are one of the best teams. I want to stay with them forever.

— Chien-Ming Wang

The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.

— David Wright

I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

— Albert Pujols

I think the players set the tone right away in spring training.

— Gabe Kapler

I enjoyed basketball and baseball too much to let football take over.

— Justin Herbert

Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game

— Anonymous

Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.

— Miguel Cabrera

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

— Al Barlick

I started playing baseball at age 4 because my family has always played baseball and I always wanted be like my brother…

— Francisco Lindor

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks,…

— Willie Mays

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw…

— Vida Blue

Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major…

— Monte Irvin

The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares…

— Bernie Lincicome

I usually don't look at at-bats where I get out. I look at my hits. I look at good swings I put…

— Mark Teixeira

Obviously, being a diehard Mets fan, my passion is a given, but I also love playing baseball. I hadn't been able to…

— Jim Breuer

I personally enjoy watching homers. I'm sure the pitchers probably will feel otherwise, but I think that's a fun part of baseball.

— Brandon Crawford

I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's…

— Eric Davis

When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they…

— Gary Sheffield

Being a baseball player is most important, first and foremost. Obviously, there are other obligations that come with everything. You just need…

— Christian Yelich

Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the…

— Felix Morley

The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the…

— Gary Carter

“Marlins Park was a creature all its own, the brainchild of either a surrealist artist or a 15-year-old kid who set out…

— Ben Blatt and Eric Brewster

I always knew that my identity wasn't in football. It wasn't in baseball. I knew it's always been in Christ and just…

— Jameis Winston

Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more…

— Barbara Holland

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same -…

— Earl Weaver

Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.

— Bob Uecker

People think that I'm trying to go up there and just hit homers. That's not the case. That's the last thing I'm…

— Kyle Schwarber

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

— Casey Stengel

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

— George Will

I hope I haven't reached a pinnacle...I hope there's something more for me in baseball and in life.

— Scott Rolen

God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

— Shoeless Joe Jackson

You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.

— Jason Varitek

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day…

— Mark Mulder

I couldn't tell you my first memory of playing baseball because I just did it before I knew anything.

— Chris Sale

“Serving time doesn't make you fit to do anything but serve more time.”

— Donald Hays

I was huge on basketball and baseball. I love sports. I'm an L.A. guy. I love the Lakers and Dodgers.

— Collin Morikawa

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

— Dennis Eckersley

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

— Don Cooper

That's one thing I learned from watching great hitters hit. A lot of hitters, they're ready to hit from pitch one.

— J. D. Martinez

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

— Donald Hall