Baseball Quotes · Page 116

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

— Bob Costas

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

— Jay Mohr

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

— Walter Johnson

If you underperform for your owners, eventually they pick up their bat and ball and go home.

— James P. Gorman

You've got to realize in baseball, not everything goes the way you want.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

When you know you have a good lineup, you don't worry about hitting the winning homer.

— Juan Soto

I understand what it is to be a Yankee. Expectations are ramped up even more.

— Aaron Boone

Once I got into the music, I realized that I had a passion for it that far outweighed what it was for…

— Chris Lane

I've got to tell you right out of the chute, Ryan Howard, to me, is very interested in my input in his…

— Mike Schmidt

He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in…

— Casey Stengel

I said jokingly that if you bat like a king, you should also get out like a king; you should not be…

— Shikhar Dhawan

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even…

— Ron Suskind

After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the…

— Jim Evans

Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland…

— Gene Autry

“David had an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball that Kramer admired, and an unusual dedication to the Yankees for a guy that grew…

— Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there…

— Mariah Nelson

The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased…

— James Earl Jones

“What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on…

— Michael Lewis

“worth. A baseball team, of all things, was at the center of a story about the possibilities—and the limits—of reason in human…

— Michael Lewis

I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of…

— Carl Sandburg

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up…

— Stan Musial

My experience over 17 years playing with the Yankees, these are a few of the things that I've learned. You've got to…

— Bernie Williams

“(Joe) Dimaggio was, in fact, mostly just a cold fish. Not even his brother Dom, who played outfield for the Red Sox...,…

— Frank Deford

There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness,…

— John Updike

One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.

— Richard Linklater

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

— Russell Baker

The Braves took some flak when they made me the number one pick. There were critics.

— Chipper Jones

“The great thing about baseball is, I've heard a hundred statements beginning, 'The great thing about baseball is.”

— Jon Sindell

My favourite game is wiffle ball, a fake version of baseball with a plastic ball and bat that's really for kids.

— Ty Burrell

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

— Willie Stargell

Practicing with the wet ball is the key to get in the best shape for fielding when there is dew.

— Ravindra Jadeja

I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.

— Johnny Oates

It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.

— Irene Rosenfeld

The more innings you play in the big leagues, the better you get.

— Marcus Semien

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

— Deborah Wiles

I've got to keep my pitch count down. If you want to go deep into ballgames, you have to stay under that…

— Gerrit Cole

They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

— Satchel Paige

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

— Earl Weaver

When I was a kid, it was just like I would catch groundballs at shortstop, second base, third base, outfield.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

You need to be ready to bat, whatever you are given; you have to take what is thrown at you.

— K. L. Rahul