Baseball Quotes · Page 3

Mickey Mantle was baseball.

— Bob Costas

I wanted to play baseball!

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Billy copied Casey to a 'T.'

— Mickey Mantle

God, I just love baseball.

— Robert Redford

I like baseball.

— Vlade Divac

Pitching is a priority.

— Tom Hicks

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

— Ryne Sandberg

I'd rather be lucky than good

— Lefty Gomez

Just tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.

— Pedro

The A's are a reason I wanted to play baseball.

— Marcus Semien

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

— Ken Griffey Jr

If you try to hit a grand slam, you’re going to strike out.

— Jon Stewart

I've always wanted to see a game at Fenway.

— Jessica Mendoza

I'm a big baseball fan, and I love the Cards.

— Robbie Lawler

The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.

— Anonymous

Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.

— Yogi Berra

You need to be ready to bat, whatever you are given; you have to take what is thrown at you.

— K. L. Rahul

When I was a kid, it was just like I would catch groundballs at shortstop, second base, third base, outfield.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

Actually, when they have celebrity look-alikes, Im always put up there with Joe Torre.

— Dan Lauria

A strikeout looking is probably the worst feeling ever for me.

— Xander Bogaerts

The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.

— Joe Garagiola

The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing that makes the arm stronger.

— Juan Marichal

I love baseball history, and Wrigley Field is as good as it gets when it comes to that.

— Ben Zobrist

Practicing with the wet ball is the key to get in the best shape for fielding when there is dew.

— Ravindra Jadeja

All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing…

— Al Kaline

I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do…

— Barry Bonds

I'm really thankful for the opportunity the Marlins gave me. They drafted me in 2010 and gave me a chance to play…

— Christian Yelich

I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out…

— Zach LaVine

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I…

— Casey Stengel

I've done it before where I get guys banging their bat on the ground after their second or third at-bat because you…

— Pat Connaughton

The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place,…

— Peter Kreeft

My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher.…

— Bruce Sutter

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its…

— Thomas Boswell

I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight,…

— Martha Beck

In life, there's the beginning and the end. The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you…

— John Carlos

One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I thought about it a lot (losing the 2002 NLCS). It's something you have to go home and wrap it up because…

— Albert Pujols

I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the…

— Tyson Gay

I think about how a guy mentally prepared himself to do battle, to go out and face the pitcher. I think so…

— Hank Aaron

I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape…

— Stan Musial