England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball,… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are… — Mookie Betts Copy Share Image
I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from… — Eddie Mathews Copy Share Image
We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher… — Jacob deGrom Copy Share Image
Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What… — George Archer Copy Share Image
You're not necessarily going to sneak out many cheap ones, but the ones that are supposed to be homers are homers when… — Christian Yelich Copy Share Image
How're the Broncos doing?" "Like a bunch of carrots." "Is that bad?" "Can carrots play baseball?" "I guess not." "Then you have… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do… — Sammy Sosa Copy Share Image
Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
In disciplines as disparate as baseball, financial services, trucking and retail, people are realizing the power of data to help make better… — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
I probably would never be caught wearing a baseball cap. Hats are difficult to me because they tend to be too big… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
I hope baseball doesn't get to the point where everyone's saying, 'He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!' because… — Adam Dunn Copy Share Image
Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick… — Bob Uecker Copy Share Image
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter.… — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's… — Bo Jackson Copy Share Image
I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out.… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high… — Juan Marichal Copy Share Image
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people,… — Bobby Bragan Copy Share Image
A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife,… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am… — Ernie Banks Copy Share Image
Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no… — Don Zimmer Copy Share Image
I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series,… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
“I got to third base. At baseball practice the following Monday, that is. As for what happened that night with Kevin at… — Brent Hartinger Copy Share Image
I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it,… — Brooks Robinson Copy Share Image
This is boxing. It's not like a baseball game. The fighters say, 'I need a lot of money or I don't fight,… — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
Finesse is catching the baseball on the edge of your glove when you're turning two, making the one-handed grabs and shoestring tackles… — Tony Ferguson Copy Share Image
Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I'm versatile. You won't see none of the others put on a XXL T-shirt with a do-rag and baseball cap and then… — Da Brat Copy Share Image
Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams,… — Gil Hodges Copy Share Image