Baseball Quotes · Page 109

“He hoped they could meet in Boston soon to 'drink or eat or whatever.' Franzen in turn suggested a Red Sox game.”

— D.T. Max

I think as a kid that you just look forward to winning the World Series and contributing in any way.

— Max Fried

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

— David Meltzer

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

— Albert Theodore Powers

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

— Carlos Beltran

I know I can be a way better player as a shortstop than I can at third.

— Manny Machado

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

— Red Barber

Wrestling isn't looked upon like the other sports of football, baseball, basketball and hockey.

— Bruno Sammartino

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball…

— John Leguizamo

Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder…

— Ken Macha

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time…

— Mike Krzyzewski

Im a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A change up which sinks down and…

— Justin Verlander

My first big league game, I stood at shortstop and I got goose bumps. Then I started panicking about having a ball…

— Corey Seager

I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you…

— Zach LaVine

Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in…

— Michael Chabon

It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love…

— Jose Peralta

I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I…

— John Madden

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me - occasionally while…

— John Malkovich

To not only be a cancer survivor, but to return to the sport of boxing, because, I mean, this is not basketball,…

— Daniel Jacobs

By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the…

— Jane Leavy

The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an…

— Bert Blyleven

“Clarissa, I was calling to ask if you wanted to go to the Laker game tonight." Now, Clarissa was hurt. "This is…

— Gigi Levangie Grazer

I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a…

— Rogers Hornsby

People think that because you might have a feeling toward another male that you don't enjoy women. I love women. I love…

— Tab Hunter

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

— Jerry Coleman

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

— Jerry Coleman

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

— Jerry Coleman

When our power swing's not there, how do we win a ballgame? We gotta find other ways to execute.

— Marcus Semien

With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!

— Jerry Coleman

But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.

— Milton Bradley

We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.

— Herb Caen

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

— John Thorn

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

— Phil Jackson

It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

— Fay Vincent

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad…

— Ted Williams

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

— Jim Evans

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate

— Dale Murphy

Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.

— Effa Manley

I don't just want to be a pull hitter or something like that.

— Fernando Tatis Jr