Baseball Quotes · Page 75

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

— Garry Kasparov

Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith…

— Kenesaw Mountain Landis

What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy…

— George Steinbrenner

I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

— Brooks Robinson

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

— Anonymous

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.…

— Ty Cobb

I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the…

— Bronson Arroyo

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

— Herbert Hoover

I grew up in East St. Louis so I wanted to play baseball as a kid. Then I moved to Nebraska and…

— Houston Alexander

Baseball didn't really fit my personality as well as football does.

— Danny Amendola

I was deeply in love with Taylor Lautner. I also was in love with the Red Sox baseball team and invited them…

— Rachel Sennott

If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

— Jerry Coleman

I love the game of baseball. Like I love playing, I'm just not good at - I don't enjoy the media part…

— Anthony Rendon

“You didn't play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you're going to make it with one? "If you're…

— M.J. Auch

Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.

— Jerry Coleman

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as…

— Bo Jackson

There's just something about telling another giant in the New York baseball scene that you thought he was Derek Jeter.

— Sal Vulcano

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A…

— Ernie Harwell

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with…

— David Ortiz

As a junior in high school, I had some injury problems with my arm and shoulder from baseball, so I didn't play…

— Carson Wentz

I don't turn off being a dad. It supersedes being a baseball player.

— Clayton Kershaw

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a…

— Michael Lewis

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

— Albert Einstein

I thought he had been shot.

— Joe DiMaggio

If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside…

— Tony La Russa

[On softball:] Diamonds are a dyke's best friend.

— Yvonne Zipter

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining.…

— Gail Simmons

You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of…

— Leon Brown

When I was in third grade I told my parents, 'I want to go to a bilingual school so I can learn…

— Carlos Correa

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another…

— Rickey Henderson

I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.

— Bryce Harper

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

— Casey Stengel

Would I like to see baseball happen in Charlotte? Absolutely.

— Anthony Foxx

“For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or any other sport. You loved it because you…

— Chad Harbach

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

— Jerry Coleman

There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.

— Mickey Mantle

In baseball I was able to emulate a lot of different things because I did it growing up, but I go about…

— John Smoltz

Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for.

— Dick Enberg

I played all sports coming up in Texas. I played basketball, football, baseball, ran track. All through high school I did all…

— DeAndre Jordan