Baseball Quotes · Page 73

I felt I was duty-bound under contract to stick with Cleveland, and I can truthfully say, in all my playing days there…

— Joe

Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.

— Mickey Mantle

It's sort of like baseball - the more you know about baseball, the more you get into a baseball game. NASCAR is…

— Michael Waltrip

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors…

— Bob Uecker

Everybody should bring a little bit more to the postseason, and I feel like baseball - playing it that way - that…

— Fernando Tatis Jr

Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look…

— Johnny Pesky

As a kid, baseball was always my passion.

— Carlos Ruiz

I'm a baseball fan. I always pulled for where the Dominican players play.

— Al Horford

There are a lot of shots in golf I can't hit, but I try to hit them anyway. The frustration is not…

— Greg Maddux

I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

— Alex Trebek

[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

— Hillary Clinton

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

— Pete Rose

People in the U.S. like good baseball, whether you're on the home team or not.

— Anonymous

Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give…

— Anne Lamott

You can't win them all but you can try.

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I always keep a baseball bat under my bed in case someone tries to break in and pitch a no-hitter!

— Green Monk

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.

— Jacques Barzun

“And the solid thwack of leather and wood colliding in perfect disharmony. The first made his dick hard, the second melted his…

— Roz Lee

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you…

— George Will

That's just the way I play baseball. It's just about playing my game and being open and vocal about how I'm feeling.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical…

— Russell Wilson

I can understand how people who don't really follow baseball can look at 'dead arm' and think the absolute worst. Basically, a…

— Matt Harvey

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

They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a…

— George Mikes

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

— Casey Stengel

In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball…

— R.A. Dickey

We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the Mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement…

— Bob DuPuy

I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but…

— Geena Davis

Oh, for that remarkable and complex economy of motherhood. Those back and forth generosities-where one day a mom ferries the kids to…

— Victoria Redel

In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to…

— Adam Dunn

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it thirty-six years and…

— Casey Stengel

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

— Tommy Henrich

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is…

— Bob Greene

Baseball moved too slow for me. I wanted to be out running and jumping.

— Jason Sehorn

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

— Lou Gehrig

“Marlins Park was a creature all its own, the brainchild of either a surrealist artist or a 15-year-old kid who set out…

— Ben Blatt and Eric Brewster

Kids in Africa start kicking a ball when they are six or seven years old, if not younger. It's like baseball, basketball…

— Masai Ujiri

“This is the second day now that I do not know the result of the juegos he thought. But I must have…

— Ernest Hemingway

Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less…

— Kid Rock