Baseball Quotes · Page 107

I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.

— Carl Pohlad

You talk to my mom about baseball, she's passionate about it.

— Alex Cora

The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be…

— Robin Williams

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

— Rich Davis

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

— Robert Orben

I had the good fortune to call George Steinbrenner both partner and friend.

— John W. Henry

Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.

— Louise Brown

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

— Sammy Sosa

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If…

— Roberta Smith

I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn't hit 500 home runs. I was one…

— Joe Morgan

There's different kinds of laughs. It's like a baseball lineup: this guy's your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I want to be 'a dude,' a guy that can help the team win. Mike Trout is a guy, Adam Jones, Clayton…

— Nolan Arenado

It's going to come down to executing, trying to keep guys off balance and disrupting timing. That's something you can do regardless…

— Jake Arrieta

I've always been one to want a fair contest between bat and ball even as a batter, so if that's taken away…

— Steve Smith

I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost…

— Chief Bender

I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits.…

— Dontrelle Willis

I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them…

— Elle Fanning

I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad…

— Pat Forde

I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of games, including…

— David Einhorn

But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be…

— Chad Harbach

“Owen," Henry said excitedly, "I think Coach wants you to hit for Meccini." Owen closed The Voyage of the Beagle , on…

— Chad Harbach

Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they…

— Waite Hoyt

Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get…

— Christine Pelosi

“Alex stood near Tiger Stadium. It was closed down now and abandoned, a ghost of itself. Alex loved baseball and lamented the…

— Gary Hardwick

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

— Rogers Hornsby

“The best pitchers have a short-term memory and a bulletproof confidence”

— R.A. Dickey

Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better…

— Roy Halladay

The speed of the game in Triple-A, Double-A is not the same as in the Big Leagues.

— Alex Cora

Dont let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game<3

— A Cinderella Story

You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.

— Carl Erskine

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

— Rickey Henderson

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a…

— Bill Buckner

After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.

— Mickey Mantle

I believe that you're a hitter first and you're a slugger second type deal.

— J. D. Martinez

It's baseball. You never know what to expect. Every day is different.

— Xander Bogaerts

The only thing my father and I have in common is that our similarities are different.

— Dale Berra

Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, then soccer, and basketball is... People don't really care about basketball.

— Yuta Watanabe

Everything revolves around baseball 24/7 during the baseball season.

— Carlos Correa

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

— Walt Whitman

I didn't want to be a catcher. It was thrust upon me, as they say in the classics.

— Mickey Cochrane