Baseball Quotes · Page 147

I always wanted to play baseball and join the circus. Now I have both.

— Graig Nettles

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

— Rickey Henderson

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

— Bill Terry

I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what…

— Hank Aaron

I remember showing up for the first day of kindergarten, Miss Springer's class, and the question was, 'What do you want to…

— Chris Sale

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

— Jerry Coleman

I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I…

— Dontrelle Willis

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

— Bob Kerrey

Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a…

— Rafe Esquith

The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.

— Burleigh Grimes

Obviously that's what you want to do, play baseball and be, at some point, a Hall of Famer.

— Carlos Correa

Baseball is just a game, obviously, but it means a lot to a lot of different people.

— Clayton Kershaw

That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

— Early Wynn

My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but…

— Tommy Lasorda

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford…

— Mickey Mantle

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the…

— Thomas Boswell

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.

— Mariano Rivera

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

— Gerald R. Ford

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention…

— Dan O'Brien

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob…

— Bill Veeck

Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too

— Tommy Lasorda

I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

— Matt Long

Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

— Jerry Coleman

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

— Jerry Coleman