Baseball Quotes · Page 125

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

— John Guare

“Playing baseball for pay - home run Teaching kids to play the game - priceless”

— Jack Perconte

Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.

— Steve Rushin

You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.

— Jerry Coleman

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

— Nomar Garciaparra

Playing in this place, this is my office. Fenway Park. Not everybody can say that.

— Alex Cora

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

— Warren Buffett

If anyone has an MiLB franchise they're looking to gift for tax purposes, I'll take it! Not picky.

— Scott Rogowsky

I guess that, as a girl from Washington state, I am attracted to a little scruff and men who are able to…

— Mikaela Hoover

There's some times where I wish I would strike out instead of hitting a little dribbler. I wish sometimes I gave myself…

— Nolan Arenado

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a…

— Bill Cosby

If nothing else, know that your children's passion and desire to play baseball is something that they can do without throwing a…

— John Smoltz

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

— John Thorn

I honestly think Derek Jeter could run for mayor in New York, and if not win, get really close, just the way…

— Saquon Barkley

“On September 7th, after the Cubs dropped Game Three, the two teams boarded the Michigan Central together to embark on the twenty-seven…

— Dennis Lehane

A lot of baseball players think baseball is cool, and the audience that we have think it's cool. It might not hit…

— David Price

Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself…

— Kate Chopin

I always could hit, but fielding I had to work at. I took as much pride in fielding as hitting. I became…

— George Kell

The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or…

— Thomas Boswell

“In the seventh inning fans all get up and sing, ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game,’ and they’re already there!” Andersen…

— Hal Bodley

“Somewhat typical for Williams was his decision to give away the six tickets he was allotted for each of the three World…

— Ben Bradlee Jr

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled…

— George Will

I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five…

— Tommy Lasorda

“Wei cleared his throat and said, “Have you heard the saying ' The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself…

— Gail Tsukiyama

I came up as a number 2 hitter. My first year I hit 16 homers, and I was like, Whoa, I'm rollin'!

— Ken Griffey Jr

The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.

— Johnny Mize

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

— Herbert Hoover

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

— Anonymous

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

— Jerry Reinsdorf

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

— Richard M. Nixon

Pitchers pitch differently. Hitters, hardly anyone has the same stance. That's just how it is.

— Ryan Zimmerman

Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is . . . well, an umpire.

— Ron Luciano

I really, to be honest, thought baseball was my ticket out of the hood.

— Rich Homie Quan

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

— Lou Brock

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

— Tommy Lasorda

My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

— Eli Manning

It's baseball. You've got to be the same guy every day, no matter if you go 4-for-4 or 0-for-4.

— Gordon Beckham

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much…

— W. P. Kinsella

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a…

— Kurt Cobain

I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way.

— David Justice