Baseball Quotes · Page 74

When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if you're a baseball player, there's…

— Kimbal Musk

By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the…

— Jane Leavy

I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I…

— Bud Grant

“I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.”

— Leo Durocher

Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton…

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

What I've always tried to do, whether it's the NBA or baseball or golf, is be charged with getting the color.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

— Mickey Mantle

If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

— Nellie Fox

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

— Hank Aaron

We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures…

— Phil Taylor

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

— Leo Durocher

My dad was big about talking about baseball and Latin players.

— Dave Martinez

The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

— Stan Coveleski

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have…

— Mike Quade

It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm…

— Alex Rodriguez

Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself…

— Kate Chopin

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball…

— Masaharu Morimoto

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

— Reggie Jackson

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

— Yogi Berra

Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.

— Monte Irvin

Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get…

— Billy Evans

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

— Tommy Lasorda

Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it…

— Robert Kennedy

“Baseball—of all things—was an example of how an unscientific culture responds, or fails to respond, to the scientific method. As”

— Michael Lewis

You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

— Andy Pettitte

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of…

— Willie Mays

I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball…

— Wanda Sykes

Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?

— Babe Ruth

Baseball is just my job.

— Barry Bonds

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

— Martina Hingis

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If…

— Roberta Smith

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I never talked about launch angle, never mentioned launch angle. I know there's a lot of people probably hoping that I would…

— Christian Yelich

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

— Phil Linz

“Baseball is only dull to dull minds”

— Red Barber

It's all so similar, all the different WAG sports - whether it be baseball, basketball, football, so I'm sure that soccer is…

— Kelly Kelly

A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune…

— Temple Grandin

Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst.

— Mickey Mantle

I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of…

— Tom Glavine

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

— Reggie Jackson