Baseball Quotes · Page 121

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

— Greg Maddux

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

— Stan Musial

Dont let the fear of striking out of the game keep you from playing .

— Anonymous

Growing up in San Diego, my main interests were the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, 'Star Wars,' baseball cards, and drawing.

— Kyle Mooney

When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.

— Bernie Williams

Short pitchers often have compact, repeatable mechanics that can lead to good control and command.

— Gabe Kapler

I'd like to play shortstop, I want to play shortstop, but we'll see where it goes.

— Corey Seager

You worry about how you're throwing the ball, how you're executing your pitches.

— Max Scherzer

I grew up a Yankee fan. My whole family are Yankee fans. My mom, my dad, my grandpa, everybody. Really, every generation…

— Patrick Corbin

It's an individual sport (golf), so it's the exact opposite of baseball. If you hit a bad shot, you can't say, 'Well,…

— Albert Belle

All you ever want as a baseball player is the respect of your peers, whether it's the people you play against or…

— Chipper Jones

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

— Pierre Trudeau

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God,…

— Pat Conroy

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding…

— Dusty Baker

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is…

— Anonymous

The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this…

— Tim Hudson

Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to…

— Marcus Sakey

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating…

— Michael Lewis

I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who…

— Tommy Lasorda

You know who first started calling me 'The Cowboy' - Paul Richards. He loved to play golf and when he came to…

— Gene Autry

Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and…

— Pat Gillick

My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball.…

— Magic Johnson

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his…

— Bob Uecker

Everybody wants to know, 'How do you throw a curveball, how do you throw a slider, how do you throw this and…

— Cliff Lee

“baseball players. Football, maybe. Not baseball, not built the way they were: thick”

— Reed Farrel Coleman

Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

— Johnny Vander Meer

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

— John Cheever

There are no games going eight innings, it's nine and above.

— Xander Bogaerts

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

— Bob Feller

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

— Bill James

“When I began playing the game, baseball was as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.”

— Ty Cobb

The Yankees can buy all the stars they want, but that doesn't guarantee they are going to win.

— Casey Wasserman

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

— Babe Ruth

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.

— Mark Teixeira

I never experienced the joy of being on the good guy's side of the perfect game or no-hitter. Karma.

— Gabe Kapler

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

— Joaquin Andujar

Strike one is a big, big pitch-you can do a lot after you get strike one, no matter how you get it.

— Eli Manning

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his…

— Branch Rickey

Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable.

— Jerry Coleman

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.

— Randy Johnson