Baseball Quotes · Page 118

What I've always tried to do, whether it's the NBA or baseball or golf, is be charged with getting the color.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

— Mickey Mantle

If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

— Nellie Fox

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

— Hank Aaron

We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures…

— Phil Taylor

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

— Leo Durocher

My dad was big about talking about baseball and Latin players.

— Dave Martinez

The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

— Stan Coveleski

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have…

— Mike Quade

It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm…

— Alex Rodriguez

Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself…

— Kate Chopin

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball…

— Masaharu Morimoto

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

— Reggie Jackson

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

— Yogi Berra

Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.

— Monte Irvin

Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get…

— Billy Evans

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

— Tommy Lasorda

Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it…

— Robert Kennedy

“Baseball—of all things—was an example of how an unscientific culture responds, or fails to respond, to the scientific method. As”

— Michael Lewis

You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

— Andy Pettitte

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of…

— Willie Mays

I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball…

— Wanda Sykes

Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?

— Babe Ruth

Baseball is just my job.

— Barry Bonds

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

— Martina Hingis