Baseball Quotes · Page 124

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans…

— Hank Aaron

I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film…

— Chuck Connors

I tried many sports like football, baseball, and swimming. I even played saxophone and piano.

— Justin Gatlin

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

— Rickey Henderson

I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

— Carl Yastrzemski

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

— Thomas Hauser

Growing up wanting to be a baseball player, then being able to have fans who respect you for how you play the…

— Kyle Schwarber

Yeah, I never played baseball. I never played soccer. I played flag football and organized football in school through my freshman year…

— Alex Caruso

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 games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

— W. P. Kinsella

You realize it's a business and that teams are going to do what's best for them. That's how it is. That's what…

— Christian Yelich

I grew up on 23, country music highway, which is a stretch of road where Ricky Skaggs and Dwight Yoakam and Loretta…

— Tyler Childers

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and…

— Jackie Robinson

To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor -…

— Robert Rubin

For me, baseball is everything.

— Robinson Cano

You know I could get hit with a baseball bat and it don't mean nothing.

— Jorge Masvidal

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

— Bill Vaughan

Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable.

— Jerry Coleman

In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having…

— Jane Leavy

Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball.…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be…

— Edward Abbey

The phrasing didn't work as well.

— Paul Simon

I follow the baseball team on the Internet more than I do the football team. Generally you can get a Nebraska game…

— Larry the Cable Guy

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

— Tug McGraw

I enjoyed baseball more as a kid, when it was just fun.

— Trevor Bauer