Baseball Quotes · Page 92

You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.

— Doug Harvey

I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play…

— AB de Villiers

The only thing on my mind now is getting that World Series ring.

— Gary Carter

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

— Pete Rose

Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.

— Roberto Clemente

It's baseball. It's crazy. It's a hard game, and it's a very humbling game.

— Francisco Lindor

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.

— Billy Butler

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

— Bob Costas

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you…

— George Will

Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who…

— Gaylord Perry

Through the mid-80s I watched my team struggle, but in 1988 the A's made it to the Series. I was at Game…

— Ryan Fleck

Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they…

— Doug Harvey

I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent…

— Bruce Sutter

If you are a reliever, you get one inning per game or if you are a starter you get one game per…

— Stephen Gostkowski

Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and…

— Nolan Ryan

Who knows how many times I'm going to get to go to the World Series? I know more than anybody how hard…

— Clayton Kershaw

I've always had that mindset of, 'OK, I may be hot this month or doing really well this month, but don't get…

— Aaron Judge

I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved…

— Warren Buffett

I did a lot of bad stuff from the age of 18 to 21. Those are days when everyone is usually in…

— Delmon Young

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“If you're wondering what's wrong with Fenway Park in the first place, you're not the only one. Fenway is special precisely because…

— Neil deMause

You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to…

— Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

It was always just trying to move to the next limit. I didn't think about making the major leagues - every kid…

— Jim Abbott

If you underperform for your owners, eventually they pick up their bat and ball and go home.

— James P. Gorman

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

— Walter Johnson

You've got to realize in baseball, not everything goes the way you want.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

— Jay Mohr

When you know you have a good lineup, you don't worry about hitting the winning homer.

— Juan Soto

I understand what it is to be a Yankee. Expectations are ramped up even more.

— Aaron Boone

Once I got into the music, I realized that I had a passion for it that far outweighed what it was for…

— Chris Lane

You can't use your hot pitcher three nights in a row. You've got to let your stars freshen up and back off…

— Bob Baffert

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

— Dale Berra

Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

— Christopher Titus

What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

— Babe Ruth

If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.

— Yogi Berra

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

— Alex Rodriguez

We come to the field with one mission. Go out there and play winning baseball.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

— Pete Rose

Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching.

— Joe Maddon