Baseball Quotes · Page 114

Baseball has been very good to me, but baseball has evolved into a hybrid of work and passion.

— Joey Votto

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

— Rickey Henderson

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

— Babe Ruth

I am extremely sorry for the stress and confusion I have brought on the Braves organization.

— John Rocker

My passions are stand-up comedy, hard rock and metal, and baseball and the Mets.

— Jim Breuer

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

— Lou Gehrig

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

— Bob Uecker

I try to think shorter swing with two strikes. That's how I was raised and taught the game of baseball.

— Anthony Rendon

The NFL is boring, the NBA is disintegrating, baseball is totally predictable. Maybe we do need the XFL. Maybe we need Nude…

— Nikhil Saluja

The Oakland A's, I loved all my teammates there. I loved all the coaches. They gave me the opportunity to play in…

— Tim Hudson

When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I…

— Roberto Clemente

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America…

— W. P. Kinsella

Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons…

— Chadwick Boseman

Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the…

— Bob Uecker

If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of…

— Nellie Fox

“He said there are two ways for a hitter to get the pitch he wants. The simplest way is not to want…

— David James Duncan

The big thing is, it's about learning which off-speed pitches to swing at. A lot of people say, 'Oh, this guy can't…

— Aaron Judge

Braves fans are one-of-a-kind. Your passion to win comes close to equaling that of the players that go out on the field…

— Tim Hudson

Starting in middle school, I would play on two or three baseball teams at the same time, because that's just how things…

— J. D. Martinez

“The volume was off, allowing for some pleasing moments of synchresis, such as when the dogs were released from their cages just…

— Kamila Shamsie

Playing catch is often the first professional act of the day, it's a transition from personal life to team business. Lastly, as…

— Fernando Perez

It was hard knowing that you walk into a store sometimes, and you're wearing a baseball cap and a hoodie and some…

— Anthony Ramos

Everybody's going to be clamoring, that's the way you should work your bullpens from now on, but you have to have the…

— Joe Maddon

I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.

— Carl Everett

The New York Yankees signed Masahiro Tanaka, and the baseball world has yawned.

— Gabe Kapler

“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics.”

— Charles Krauthammer

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

— Sargent Shriver

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

— Ian Botham

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

— Yogi Berra

To some people the limp gloves, the smelly shoes, and the sturdy bat is just a game. But to me it's a…

— Anonymous

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game…

— Babe Ruth

You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.

— Rocky Colavito

I was getting ready way too late and the ball was beating me to the strike zone.?

— Jose Bautista

I think Shohei Ohtani is worth $500 million. He's a phenomenon never seen before in the MLB history. He can do it all.

— Manny Ramirez

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

— Stephen King

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.

— Don Cooper

I don't consider football fun. It's not like a water park or a baseball game.

— Chris Borland

I've never really considered myself a home run hitter. Mostly I'm a guy who hits into the gaps for a lot of…

— Mike Lowell

My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.

— Greg Maddux