Baseball Quotes · Page 126

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

— Cy Young

Ku’Sox was indeed a demon. In. The. Sun. I needed answers, but I wanted them from Al, not…Cute Socks here.

— Kim Harrison

That's the great thing about baseball: every season is completely different.

— Ryan Zimmerman

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

— Barry Switzer

Dudes got d*ck for style. Hes got no showmanship or personal pizzazz. Its like watching a f*cking pitching machine.

— Kenny Powers

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

— Woody Allen

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

— Elbert Hubbard

I've literally had dreams of that moment since I was a kid, no joke, about stepping in for my first at-bat.

— Eddy Alvarez

That was easy for him to say when his cell phone was rounding third base. If anyone got a home run tonight,…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in…

— Tom Seaver

When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if you're a baseball player, there's…

— Kimbal Musk

There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent.…

— Jimmy Iovine

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence…

— Michael Chabon

I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) . . . I had a diminished-skills clause…

— Frank Thomas

Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won…

— Pee Wee Reese

MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they…

— Paul Quantrill

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited…

— Joseph Campbell

Everybody used to say that baseball players can't dress and athletes can't dress. You know, a lot of athletes now are trying…

— Matt Kemp

Cold weather probably played a bigger role in bringing back the hat, but sadly, the hat common to New Jersey guidos, South…

— Roger Stone

I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do,…

— Pedro Martinez

There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting…

— Laurie Colwin

Use emotional awareness and pay attention to your body - look [and locate] concrete physical sensations - like stabbing, aching, throbbing -…

— Gary Zukav

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders,…

— Jamie Bamber

“Waiting for the Cardinals-Dodgers winner, the Red Sox decided to try to keep their edge by playing an exhibition series at Fenway…

— Ben Bradlee Jr

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

— Jackie Robinson

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

— W. P. Kinsella

The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

— Joe Torre

He pitches better when he's mad, so I try to make him that way.

— Jorge Posada

Baseball is better with tradition, with history. Baseball is better with fans who care.

— Theo Epstein

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

— Tim McCarver

You know what, I remember being on my T-ball team and telling people about 'Platoon.'

— Bill Hader

“Tell him to shut up! Tell him there's no crying in baseball!”

— Stephen King

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.

— Ted Williams

Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.

— Jimmy Cannon

Before my family - my wife and my daughter - baseball was probably 85 percent of my life.

— Francisco Lindor

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball

— Kurt Russell

To get the adrenaline going before the game for a big league baseball game was pretty special.

— Daniel Hudson

Winning isn't as important as doing well individually. You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate.

— Ken Landreaux

If you make a certain type of statement, you can make a pretty good prediction of how George Steinbrenner will react.

— John W. Henry

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

— Bert Campaneris