Baseball Quotes · Page 91

Whether I'm 0-for-10 or 10-for-10, every time I walk to the plate I believe I'm going to hit a missile.

— Alex Bregman

You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.

— Joe Torre

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

— Whitey Herzog

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

— Chad Harbach

I love baseball history, and Wrigley Field is as good as it gets when it comes to that.

— Ben Zobrist

The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.

— Joe Garagiola

The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing that makes the arm stronger.

— Juan Marichal

A strikeout looking is probably the worst feeling ever for me.

— Xander Bogaerts

I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves…

— W. P. Kinsella

You always want to play the game the right way, especially with the big names that have come before us. You want…

— Brandon Crawford

I played baseball too, and flag football, but basketball was the easiest for me. Then when I was 12, my dad asked…

— Lonzo Ball

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were…

— Frederick Busch

Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen…

— Tom Seaver

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball.…

— Hank Aaron

“Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job…

— Time Magazine

I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and…

— Ryne Sandberg

If you're a baseball player and you're on the mound, you don't ever want to look up in the stands if somebody…

— Tiger Woods

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the…

— Anonymous

My biggest thing is I need to see a lot of pitches, which I did today. That's good. The more pitches you…

— Mark Teixeira

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of…

— Jim Courier

“In a proud fatherly sadomasicisticly way, I am thrilled when I get hit. As every deep purple bruise on my body represented…

— John Passaro

Clubs are taking away the steal of home. Not only are more pitchers throwing out of the stretch position, but more third…

— Tony La Russa

I feel my time in baseball has come and gone. I feel like I had a great career. I had a lot…

— Barry Bonds

I love baseball and I know how much America loves baseball. But you know what I love way more than baseball? My…

— Ryan Zimmerman

Actually, when they have celebrity look-alikes, Im always put up there with Joe Torre.

— Dan Lauria

When I was a kid, it was just like I would catch groundballs at shortstop, second base, third base, outfield.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

You need to be ready to bat, whatever you are given; you have to take what is thrown at you.

— K. L. Rahul

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

— William Feather

If you ask me, if Tony Gwynn played in a 60-game season, I'd say he's gonna hit .400.

— John Smoltz

Originally, I think basketball is closer to hockey than baseball.

— Daryl Morey

If I can make a kid smile playing baseball, that's pretty awesome.

— Clayton Kershaw

There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.

— Goose Gossage

You don't last too long in baseball if you can't hit the curveball.

— Jason Sehorn

I love nothing more than going out there and competing. And baseball's my outlet to do that.

— Max Fried

I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches.

— Jason Bay

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

— Mike Trout

Baseball-Reference has been very good to me during my career.

— Joey Votto

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

— Joe Torre

I like the two-seam fastball. That's a pitch I'm fascinated with.

— Trevor Bauer

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

— Tommy Lasorda