Baseball Quotes · Page 101

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

— Jerry Coleman

I think that's the beautiful thing about baseball - there's not one right way to do things.

— Ryan Zimmerman

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

— Roger Maris

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

— Billy Crystal

As a hitter, I think if we wanted to change something, we should scoot the mound back. But that's never gonna happen.

— Cody Bellinger

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

— Laraine Day

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

— Gil Hodges

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.

— Roger Clemens

As a shortstop coming up through the minors, you're taught to glove slow rollers and transfer the ball to your throwing hand,…

— Chipper Jones

I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in…

— Wayne Gretzky

Players that tend to respond to adversity the right way and triumph in the end are players with strong character. If you…

— Theo Epstein

Baseball is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than…

— Charles Comiskey

We try to do a great job of understanding the opposing hitter and his tendencies. Maybe understand the hitter better than he…

— Theo Epstein

You have to have a great fielder at shortstop, and you've got to have a guy that has good range and good…

— Aaron Judge

I want to be a high-order batter in the one-day stuff, to play some long innings rather than just go in and…

— Ben Stokes

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and…

— Vin Scully

I was constantly searching for something and you kid yourself that someone out there has got that secret to batting that they…

— Jos Buttler

There are three types of pitchers you have to deal with. Some, you just have to tell what town they're in, remind…

— Johnny Bench

The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them…

— John Dickerson

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used…

— Willie Mays

The game can come down to one pitch. But when you're actually out there on the mound and when you're pitching, you…

— Max Scherzer

I think the biggest thing that I learned, and why I've fallen in love with baseball, is how mental of a game…

— Kylie Bunbury

We've said from the beginning when we traded Richie (Sexson), we're trading home runs for doubles and the ability to manufacture runs...…

— Ned Yost

“One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit…

— R.A. Dickey

I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

— Scott Rolen

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

— Jim Fowler

I would like to come back in the World Series. And I want to pitch better.

— Yu Darvish

People who say spring training's too long, I absolutely disagree. I think it's the perfect length of time.

— Joe Maddon

Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.

— Yu Darvish

“Did she go to Washington Redskins football games, or follow the Nats baseball team?”

— Ken Follett

Anything that makes me feel like being a baseball player beyond being a pitcher, I'll take advantage of it.

— Max Fried

It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

— Curt Flood

I am not tired of being baseball's designated 'outspoken guy.' It's just me being me.

— Trevor Bauer

I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.

— Ryan Guzman

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

— Herbert Hoover

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

— Dan Uggla

I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

— Stephen Strasburg

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

— Ken Harrelson

To hit a home run is really hard. So why not enjoy it when we do it?

— Fernando Tatis Jr