Baseball Quotes · Page 98

Once you get the hang of how all this works, it's no biggie. It's baseball, man. It's baseball.

— Joe Maddon

Any time first time out, you just want to make sure you can get hitters out again.

— Clayton Kershaw

How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name.

— Yogi Berra

“I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.”

— Leo Durocher

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

— George Carlin

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

— Margaret Mitchell

[Red Sox and Blue Jays] formula's been they have such durability in the bullpen.

— Joe Maddon

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

— Pete Rose

Me talking about my batting average and not getting hits is not going to help me do better tomorrow. Staying positive is…

— Marcus Semien

I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting…

— Sutton Foster

I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I…

— Carlton Cuse

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited…

— John Irving

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off, the right pitch will come and when it does be prepared…

— Sara Ann Nielsen

When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to…

— Jim Evans

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the…

— Bob Uecker

I started out wanting to be a fireman and would cry if my mother tried to take off my 'Emergency 51' hat,…

— Ed Henry

It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly…

— Anthony Bourdain

Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get…

— Chadwick Boseman

I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men…

— Stan Musial

You try to take advantage of taking control of the game when you know you may have guys on base and counts…

— Matt Cain

Baseball is a sport where being stupid and keeping things really simple a lot of times is the right way to do…

— Zack Greinke

Making games look more photorealistic is not the only means of improving the game experience. I know, on this point, I risk…

— Satoru Iwata

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just…

— Stephen King

If I'm throwing a no-hitter and someone says, 'Hey, you've got a no-hitter,' obviously I'd be like, 'Yeah, I know.' I just…

— Stephen Gostkowski

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

— Ty Cobb

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

— Ken Harrelson

The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

— Larry MacPhail

I'm always expected to hit a home run; but, sometimes you can win the game with a bunt.

— Jeff Arnold

This is baseball, this is in my blood, this is what I grew up with.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.

— Rich Donnelly

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

— George Herman

The biggest thing I want is for the hitter coming up behind me to get a good pitch to hit.

— Johnny Damon

I do my best hitting when I'm walking. That means I'm relaxed and my pitch recognition is a lot better.

— Alex Rodriguez

If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball.

— Pedro Martinez

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.

— Anonymous

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

— Ty Cobb

I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.

— Monte Irvin

The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

— Vin Scully

It took me 17 years to get threethousand hits in baseball.It took me one afternoon on a golf course

— Hank Aaron

The ups and downs, that's baseball life. That's what I live for, play for.

— Aaron Judge