I usually don't look at at-bats where I get out. I look at my hits. I look at good swings I put… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares… — Bernie Lincicome Copy Share Image
“Nick said. “Failing at school, failing at baseball…” The last part just came out, one last part of this he couldn’t stop… — Mike Lupica Copy Share Image
I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but… — Moses Malone Copy Share Image
Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could… — John M. Culkin Copy Share Image
Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and… — Jerry Jones Copy Share Image
There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There were other really large cities that… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year… — Dan Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“As early as 1999, Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (“Bud”) Selig had taken to calling the Oakland A’s success “an aberration,”… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far.… — Bobby Cox Copy Share Image
I'll (Phil Rizzuto) never forget September 6, 1950. I got a letter threatening me, Hank Bauer, Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize. It… — Phil Rizzuto Copy Share Image
“Do you know how crazy that made me? I’m trying to concentrate on my fucking fucking ball baseball game and all I… — J. Sterling Copy Share Image
The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Vowels were something else. He didn't like them, and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
So many good things have happened to me in the game of baseball. When I do allow myself a chance to think… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love playing, I love baseball, I love competing. And if I just focus on those things, then everything else will take… — Max Fried Copy Share Image
A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It gave me a second chance. I'd like everybody to have a second chance if they need it, so I'm trying to… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
I am a bat freak. Even if I have one match bat I carry eight bats to make my kit look heavy.… — Hardik Pandya Copy Share Image
As a batter, I just try to put myself in a bubble, not letting anything in from the outside, looking only at… — Ben Stokes Copy Share Image
Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
“What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch. Where others wrote, they talked. Where others waited,… — Stan Musial Copy Share Image
You’re not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You’re going to be more wrong than right. You just have… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
It's sort of like baseball - the more you know about baseball, the more you get into a baseball game. NASCAR is… — Michael Waltrip Copy Share Image
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic,… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse… — Mike Piazza Copy Share Image
I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine.… — Doug Harvey Copy Share Image
The Major Leagues are a different game. Initially it's survival, but the more you play and more experience you get, the sky… — Marcus Semien Copy Share Image
“If you don't have a catcher, the ball goes to the backstop. Casey Stengel explaining why the Mets selected mediocre catcher Hobie… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
There's a lot of baseball players who give their best effort all of the time. But one kind of gets away from… — Ronald Acuna Jr Copy Share Image
You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It… — Terry Francona Copy Share Image
Most people have been on a baseball diamond and a basketball court. At least once in their life, they've walked across a… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it. — Smoky Joe Wood Copy Share Image
I, I could see a baseball diamond in my backyard. A house for my mother and a new car but I'll never… — Jacob Latimore Copy Share Image
Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's… — Joe Maddon Copy Share Image
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