Baseball Quotes · Page 9

Hey man! Get away from me!

— Mickey Mantle

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

— Max Scherzer

I love the game of baseball.

— Nomar Garciaparra

Baseball is a crazy game.

— Max Fried

I played second base.

— Marc Randolph

I'm a baseball freak.

— Dee Dee Myers

Baseball regards us as sheep.

— Curt Flood

I thought he had been shot.

— Joe DiMaggio

Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.

— Jerry Coleman

Life is much like batting, treating every ball on merit.

— Ravi Shastri

Sometimes offense wins. Sometimes pitching wins.

— Anthony Rendon

If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less.

— Bobby Wallace

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

— William Zinsser

I have been trained to throw many, many pitches.

— Daisuke Matsuzaka

I don't find that much wrong with baseball.

— Alex Bregman

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

— Ernie Banks

“Sometimes are feats aren’t so fabulous, they’re just dubious—but either way, they’re fun to talk about.”

— Tucker Elliot

I think I've tried to have a platform to speak and to help kids understand learning about baseball.

— Mookie Betts

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

— Bruce Sutter

It ain't like I had a dad out there to play catch with me or throw me batting practice. I'm proud of…

— Tommy Pham

I'm a sucker for Wrigley, so I feel I'll probably be a sucker for Fenway, too.

— Gerrit Cole

I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.

— Barry Bonds

I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.

— Satchel Paige

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

— Jerry Coleman

I was correct in every call I made, regardless of what managers, players or replay may have said. To me, that's the…

— Doug Harvey

I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

— Carl Yastrzemski

People think I must have all these superstitions, but I don't. I use my batting gloves 'til they wear out. I broke…

— Jimmy Rollins

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day,…

— Wade Boggs

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated…

— Joe Torre

If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid,…

— Joaquin Andujar

I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's…

— Theo Rossi

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing…

— Ryne Sandberg

I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him…

— Curt Young

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

— Tom Verducci

I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's…

— John McGraw

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way.…

— Thomas Boswell

Life is like baseball...it throws strange things and you just like the pitcher throws that hard baseball...if you miss it the first…

— Anonymous

Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the…

— Harold S. Kushner

At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much…

— Pat Gillick

I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or…

— Dusty Baker