Baseball Quotes · Page 105

I don't want anybody to panic. I'm not pitching. I'm just throwing out the first ball.

— Phil Niekro

I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.

— Eddie Murray

I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.

— Matt Kemp

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

— Jennifer Garner

Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

— Jay Feaster

I'm a shortstop, man. That's where I've played my whole career. Obviously it's a position I take a lot of pride in.

— Xander Bogaerts

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

— Jerry Coleman

I think October baseball is a lot of fun to follow, being a biased guy that enjoys the sport from time to…

— Pat Connaughton

Sometimes you've got to be a little flexible. For the most part, it's hard to get players to look at the big…

— Terry Francona

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are…

— Bob Feller

Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting…

— Roy Campanella

I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give…

— Terry Bradshaw

There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about…

— Phil Niekro

(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge…

— Ira Berkow

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no…

— Robert Redford

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and…

— Mike Schmidt

My main concern is when it's 2-0, I've got to keep it at 2-0. It gives us a little more of a…

— Roger Clemens

The one thing that I do have that I really like is I framed some of my jerseys. In college, I played…

— Trea Turner

That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock…

— Mike Schmidt

Becoming baseball analyst was really important for me to not just be one of the first, but to literally break open the…

— Jessica Mendoza

Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of…

— Jim Bouton

I remember watching 'In Living Color' at my grandmother's house in Chicago and Kris Kross came on the screen. I felt I…

— Da Brat

I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking,…

— Carlos Delgado

There was an aura about him (Joe DiMaggio). He walked like no one else walked. He did things so easily. He was…

— Phil Rizzuto

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

— Mike Royko

If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball…

— Joey Jordison

I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something…

— Barry Levinson

We should be able to live the lives of other professional athletes in hockey, baseball, NFL and NBA.

— Curtis Blaydes

I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.

— Vladimir Guerrero

Any time you go out to bat, you want to prepare as well as you can and try and commit your plans.

— Kane Williamson

The great hitters use the whole field, and that's a goal of mine.

— Mookie Betts

I do not want to be a player who is known for hitting those 20-odd runs.

— Ravindra Jadeja

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

— Willie Stargell

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a…

— Graig Nettles

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

— Alex Trebek

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

— Mark McGwire

I probably have more success in football, but baseball is a passion of mine, and I want to play as long as…

— Jameis Winston

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few…

— Clayton Kershaw

As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

— Derrek Lee