Baseball Quotes

We are the New York Yankees

— George Steinbrenner

My curveball is a C-.

— Stephen Gostkowski

I love to be around baseball.

— Yadier Molina

I love to pitch so much.

— David Cone

Umpires are necessary evils.

— Doug Harvey

The crowd makes the ballgame.

— Ty Cobb

I love second base.

— Ben Zobrist

I'm in the major league now.

— Pitbull

He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.

— Yogi Berra

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

— Leo Durocher

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

— Red Barber

You have to play defense for the pitchers.

— Trea Turner

My parents didn't know anything about baseball.

— John Smoltz

I wasn't raised inside of Canadian baseball really.

— Joey Votto

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

— Bo Jackson

Baseball is part of our culture. It's part of us.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

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

— Doug Harvey

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

— Tommy Lasorda

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

— Trevor Bauer

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

— Gary Carter

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

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

— Max Fried

People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch…

— Greg Maddux

To go from not being recognised at all to literally, the next day, having people stop you in the street was very,…

— Natalia Dyer

I've experienced every aspect of pitching. I know the reality of what these guys are going through. You can be going good,…

— Roger McDowell

I thought tennis was a boring sport. Football and basketball and baseball were the cooler sports to play in America. So those…

— Ben Shelton

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus,…

— John Updike

Yeah, strikeouts just kind of happen. It's not something I'm trying to do, I'm just trying to get outs as fast as…

— Clayton Kershaw

That's just stuff that fuels me to continue to do it, to continue to be better, and set an example for the…

— Xander Bogaerts

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our…

— John Thorn

I've been fortunate to be on two teams that have won the World Series. I've had a chance to go through that…

— Buster Posey

Josh Bard is a catcher with excellent defensive tools and someone ... whose best days are ahead of him. He's not coming…

— Theo Epstein

I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago…

— Ernie Banks

The Mets represent life and the reality of life, the winning, the losing, the hope, the faith. You stick with them through…

— Jim Breuer

On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my…

— Matt Lauer

I liked playing with David Eckstein (former Angels shortstop). I'm not talking about players with top skills, I'm sure there were players…

— Bengie Molina

There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is…

— Donny Deutsch

I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers,…

— Roger Maris