Baseball Quotes · Page 115

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I…

— Matt Kemp

Baseball is baseball whether you're in last place in August or in first place in August.

— Ryan Zimmerman

Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.

— Judy Johnson

I really remember coming into my first big-league clubhouse. It was one of the most special moments of my life.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

Marijuana is to rock and roll what beer is to baseball, so imagine if they took away beer at the ballgame.

— Jesse Ventura

Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find.

— Charlie Finley

Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).

— Roberto Clemente

The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

— Curt Flood

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

— Casey Stengel

I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the…

— Christy Mathewson

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was…

— Bea Arthur

I know what kind of pitcher Whitey was, and I know what kind of person Whitey is. It makes me feel proud…

— Mariano Rivera

Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy,…

— Bill Dedman

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books…

— Roger Angell

I'm probably an average hitter, at least, and if you talk to my peers, they will tell you that I hit the…

— Luke Donald

He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made…

— Liza Minnelli

Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal,…

— Earl Weaver

The World Series is something that rarely gets to a number of venues in professional baseball. And that's one problem because we…

— Scott Boras

I'd like to think my brand shares some of those characteristics we like to think of as classically American - a certain…

— Michael Bastian

There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to…

— Doug Harvey

“Reflecting on the appeal of history in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, heroine Catherine Morland comments, “I often think it odd that it…

— John Thorn

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When…

— Jim Evans

Josh wanted to be the one to break the color barrier. When the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson he knew it was over…

— Ted Page

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over,…

— Jackie Robinson

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

— Dale Berra

What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

— Babe Ruth

Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

— Christopher Titus

If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.

— Yogi Berra

You can't use your hot pitcher three nights in a row. You've got to let your stars freshen up and back off…

— Bob Baffert

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

— Alex Rodriguez

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

— Pete Rose

We come to the field with one mission. Go out there and play winning baseball.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching.

— Joe Maddon

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

— George Bernard Shaw

Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.

— Nolan Ryan

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

— Earl Wilson

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

— Pete Rose

Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.

— Roberto Clemente

It's baseball. It's crazy. It's a hard game, and it's a very humbling game.

— Francisco Lindor

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.

— Billy Butler