Baseball Quotes · Page 15

What do you think, I was born at 60?

— Casey Stengel

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

— Curt Flood

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

— Bill Klem

I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?

— Scott Rolen

Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?

— Mickey Mantle

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

— J. J. Abrams

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

— Casey Stengel

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

— Dizzy Dean

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball…

— Reggie Jackson

The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.

— Orel Hershiser

I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about…

— Chase Utley

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

— Roy Campanella

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

— Herbert Hoover

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

— Ernie Harwell

I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?

— Harold Reynolds

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

People used to ask me what it's like to play with the two best pitchers in the game. I said, 'It's a…

— John Smoltz

Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize…

— Tom Seaver

It's playoff baseball. You've just got to perform. Everyone is battling something from pitching through the year or just not as sharp…

— Max Fried

I definitely know a lot of guys that played in the league that came from the Bronx, but not a lot of…

— Kemba Walker

“For your penance, say two Hail Marys, three our Fathers, and," he added, with a chuckle, "say a special prayer for the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come…

— Will Leitch

“The sensation of a baseball bat to the face was not any more pleasant when it came from an unexpected direction, without…

— John C. Wright

Be aggressive... That's the type of pitcher I am. I go as hard as I can for as long as I can…

— Jake Peavy

Since its beginnings, baseball has been guided by an invisible hand. A set of unwritten rules that all players are expected to…

— Carlos Correa

Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep,…

— Russell Baker

I did a more serious turn in a movie called 'Moneyball.' It's a baseball movie, where I play the character of Scott…

— Chris Pratt

When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the…

— Alex Gibney

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great…

— John Fowles

When you feel like you're going to have a low-scoring game, why not have one of your better hitters have a chance?…

— Dave Martinez

The fact that guys adjusted really quickly to the big leagues, developed really quickly, faced adversity under the brightest spotlights, played great…

— Theo Epstein

“[George] Foster lacks the name recognition outside of Cincinnati that other members of the Big Red machine maintain, but that doesn’t diminish…

— Tucker Elliot

Three hours for an average game is not good for baseball.

— Keith Hernandez

I don't know anything about baseball.

— Sean Connery

A pitcher is worth a thousand worts.

— Hannah Hart

It's a beautiful thing, baseball.

— Miguel Cabrera

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

— Ted Williams

They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

— Catfish Hunter

Bottom line is, you have to pitch. You want timely hits.

— Bobby Bonilla

I like football, baseball, basketball, golf, racing.

— Kevin Harvick