Baseball Quotes · Page 69

I'd rather not throw the ball at all.

— Lefty Gomez

Baseball was the escape. I played all throughout my childhood.

— Anthony Ramos

It started with 'A League of Their Own.' I mean, to me, if you played softball or baseball as a girl growing…

— Jessica Mendoza

[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

— Eric Gagne

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

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often…

— Jerry Coleman

I don't think the money matters to me anymore. I just want to continue to play baseball and keep playing baseball in…

— Ryan Zimmerman

Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.

— Mike McCready

The Commonwealth's own Ryan Zimmerman is a baseball legend and trailblazer. I am thrilled to issue a proclamation designating Ryan Zimmerman Day…

— Glenn Youngkin

I help with everything. My wife and I are a team. I pack my son's lunches, and she takes him to baseball…

— Bill Goldberg

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking…

— Dave Winfield

“And wasn't that a great moment in baseball history," Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. "Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I feel my time in baseball has come and gone. I feel like I had a great career. I had a lot…

— Barry Bonds

I think the guys that get to the All-Star Game deserve a lot of credit. They deserve their opportunity to get out…

— Tony La Russa

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

— Sharon Olds

Once people couldn't trust the college game, some checked out the pro game, but that was in big trouble, too. We had…

— Dolph Schayes

You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be…

— Bengie Molina

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the…

— Brooks Robinson

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and…

— Richie Ashburn

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

— Fay Vincent

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

— Bill Veeck

It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't.

— Yogi Berra

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities…

— Ernie Harwell

Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.

— Chet Huntley

From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

— Jerry Coleman

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years…

— Nolan Ryan

My dad was a founder of our Little League chapter in my hometown so you talked baseball in our family for breakfast,…

— Alex Cora

I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball.…

— Bengie Molina

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

— Mickey Mantle

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The…

— Roger Maris

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better…

— Jim Evans

Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk…

— Deborah Tannen

That's what baseball is all about right there, a matter of will.

— Dusty Baker

I've always tried to play baseball hard.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

Baseball, once I got to the Major Leagues, I told myself, 'Now it's begun.'

— Eddy Alvarez

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

— Jerry Coleman

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks,…

— Carrie Underwood

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

— Stan Musial

People asking my teammates, 'Is Arrieta a guy who'd try to cheat the system?' Honestly, hearing that kind of stuff come from…

— Jake Arrieta