Baseball Quotes · Page 118

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

— Jay Mohr

I've always, always loved going to Boston, pitching in Boston.

— Chris Sale

The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.

— Orel Hershiser

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

— Roy Campanella

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

— Herbert Hoover

I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about…

— Chase Utley

I set out to be the best umpire of my time. But I don't know what it takes to be great.

— Doug Harvey

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

— Bill Lee

People ask me if I put pressure on myself. Honestly, I don't. To me, pressure creates distractions and there is no time…

— Carlos Correa

It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as…

— Jack Buck

One of the reasons I wear No. 2 is because of him. Yeah, he was ultimate team guy. He was a winner.…

— Alex Bregman

He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his…

— Jimmy Cannon

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be…

— Alyssa Milano

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I…

— David Cone

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade…

— Branch Rickey

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your…

— Dave Winfield

Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity…

— Roger Kahn

“The affair between Boston and Ted Williams has been no mere summer romance; it has been a marriage, composed of spats, mutual…

— John Updike

One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every…

— Daniel Ortega

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think…

— Duke Snider

I don't think you can set up a computer to do a strike zone on a guy who's 6-foot-5 and then a…

— Johnny Bench

In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever…

— Raymond Pettibon

For generations, minor-league baseball has been seen as the scrappier, sometimes seedier, counterpart to its big-league sibling. Games are often cloaked in…

— Mary Pilon

It doesn't matter what the scoreboard says. I'm always having fun, talking to other guys. They even come to first base and…

— Albert Pujols

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is,

— Joe Torre

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

— Brooks Robinson

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

— Miguel de Cervantes

He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country.

— Lefty Gomez

“He’s letting me see the real him, something he doesn’t allow a lot of people to see.”

— Collette West

I used to collect basketball cards and baseball cards growing up.

— David Lee

In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

— George Carlin

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

— Carl Yastrzemski

Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

— Tom Hanks

Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

— Casey Stengel

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

— Phil Jackson

I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

— Jeremy Bonderman

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

— Jim Abbott

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

— Goose Gossage

If you want to see a bunch of happy Americans, go out to opening day at any baseball stadium in the land.

— Ben Fountain

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

— Rafe Esquith