Baseball Quotes · Page 108

“Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. —CHARLIE GEHRINGER”

— Lori Wilde

I think if you're playing basketball, you're helping yourself for football or baseball.

— Sean Payton

I told him I wasn't tired. He told me, no, but the outfielders sure are.

— Jim Kern

Those huckleberries in the National League don't want to do anything that the American League wants to do.

— Phil Rizzuto

My dad was big about talking about baseball and Latin players.

— Dave Martinez

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a…

— Philip K. Wrigley

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

— Alan Greenspan

I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

— Bill de Blasio

Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors…

— Bob Uecker

I believe in my heart that the name of the game in baseball - from an offensive perspective - is getting on…

— Gabe Kapler

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black…

— Jackie Robinson

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about…

— Hillary Clinton

Yeah, I never played baseball. I never played soccer. I played flag football and organized football in school through my freshman year…

— Alex Caruso

I be in and outta state, everyday a different place. And I be hittin' home runs while you still on second base.…

— Jae Millz

When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was…

— Lloyd Waner

I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits).…

— Carl Yastrzemski

I think these are the most difficult games to win, just every at-bat, every pitch, it seemed like it was important. The…

— Clayton Kershaw

When I step onto the mound for the first time in a game, I remove my cap and look under the brim…

— Sean Doolittle

At elementary school I played every sport and then I started to like basketball more but then again I had phases with…

— O. G. Anunoby

I'm not going to be reading as much about everything as probably the next guy. I'm really more focused on the between-the-lines…

— Chris Sale

Well, my dad (Ken Griffey) taught me that there's three parts. There's hitting, there's defense, and there's baserunning. And as long as…

— Ken Griffey, Jr

Just before I said I wanted to be an astronomer I said I wanted to be a baseball player. I was quite…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“And then, as I was bouncing the ball up and down on the grass, just about to wind up my body to…

— Rafael Nadal

I had sex with a couple guys but it wasn't a baseball team. I saved that for my twenties.

— Chelsea Handler

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

— Philip Roth

The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.

— Frank Thomas

America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.

— Philip Treacy

“I can throw an orange like a baseball, but I can’t eat a baseball like an orange. Let that be a life…

— Jarod Kintz

Baseball is the same game no matter what, it doesn't change.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

— Bo Jackson

I'm not up there trying to go out there and just hit home runs.

— Kyle Schwarber

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

— Alvin Dark

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the…

— Casey Stengel

Wrestling, football, basketball, and baseball were the four things I was obsessed with as a kid.

— Tyrus

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

My size hasn't prevented me from doing anything at shortstop.

— Corey Seager

You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.

— Shawn Wayans

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

— Mickey Mantle

My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

— Johnny Bench