Baseball Quotes · Page 76

The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.

— Reggie Jackson

It's (baseball) on the radio and in the newspapers every day, the only game you can follow on that basis. From whatever…

— Tom Seaver

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

— Warren Spahn

I know I didn't deserve this, but God has given me this baseball ability. So I've got to do whatever I can…

— Clayton Kershaw

I would not be in the NFL, 100 percent, if it wasn't for basketball. I probably wouldn't be where I am without…

— Adam Thielen

The day I left baseball, I became smart. When I was in baseball, I played for the love of the game. I'd…

— Chuck Connors

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming…

— John Thorn

Dusty Rhodes was a great athlete. Actually, he was a baseball player as well. He played football but he played baseball. That…

— Ted DiBiase Sr

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed,…

— Ty Cobb

The game isn't over till it's over.

— Yogi Berra

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes.…

— Matthew Modine

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

— Bernard Malamud

“The beauty of baseball is multidimensional, appealing to the eye and the mind. There is beauty, for instance, in its geometry, the…

— Tom Verducci

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible…

— Roger Angell

I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got a wheelbarrow,…

— John C. McGinley

I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been…

— Mickey Mantle

Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.

— Susan Sarandon

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

— Alvin Dark

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players…

— Ralph Kiner

There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit…

— Mark McGwire

They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays

— John Lowenstein

I played baseball a little bit and ran some track. I was a catcher at one point and I was at shortstop.

— Anthony Johnson

What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have…

— Bill Veeck

What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They…

— Brady Anderson

Somebody had asked me how it was to be in Atlanta, and I said that Atlanta had always been known as a…

— Matt Kemp

Look at baseball, with its defensive shifts - outfielders looking at cards on the field much like a quarterback would. It's possible…

— Tony Khan

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over…

— Jay Leno

Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to…

— Bob Gibson

I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but…

— Moses Malone

Those people don't know how tough that really was.

— Mickey Mantle

High school baseball is a passion of mine.

— Kyler Murray

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to…

— Harry Callahan

I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I'd not make it. No. Never.

— Justin Verlander

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

— Jerry Coleman

I can't imagine raising a child with a goal of that child being a baseball player or a lawyer or whatever. Odds…

— Oliver Luck

I have lots of favorites movies. I say this only because it's a favorite movie because it's a sport I love. I'm…

— Rick Santorum

It's rewarding riding into the sunset. What better way to go? My teammates carried me off the field - it doesn't get…

— David Ross

I was a baseball fan, at any rate.

— Hillary Clinton

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics,…

— Criss Jami