Baseball Quotes · Page 126

I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

— Mick Foley

“I had a great deal of valuable knowledge - about genetics, computers, aikido, karate, hardware, chess, wine, cocktails, dancings, sexual positions, social…

— Graeme Simsion

I'm lucky. I got a chance to play major-league baseball.

— Ken Griffey Jr

I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves…

— Buzzie Bavasi

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

— Pete Rose

What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I…

— Rick Monday

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect…

— Bill Veeck

I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the…

— Adam Yauch

Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of…

— Paul Ormerod

“Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.”

— Red Smith

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

— Art Rust, Jr

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

— Sam McDowell

I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I…

— Michael Jackson

My dad was the founder of the Little League chapter in Caguas where I'm from, he passed away in 1998, and that's…

— Alex Cora

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

— Herbert Hoover

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.

— Earl Wilson

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

— Lou Gehrig

I played from 14 to 18 - like, I was very good at it. I was Mr. Baseball my freshman year. We…

— Rich Homie Quan

Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer…

— Steve Busby

The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes…

— Jose Canseco

They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.

— Pete Rose

In days of yore, Opening Day of the baseball season was special, signifying that spring had come at last. Today, however, Opening…

— Frank Deford

The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role…

— Orrin Hatch

At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much…

— Pat Gillick

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

— Leo Durocher