Baseball Quotes · Page 132

I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

— Dan Quisenberry

The best game I've ever played was a baseball game where the bat was a sword and the ball was someone's neck.

— Nikhil Saluja

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

— Anonymous

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

— Gerald R. Ford

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

— Babe Ruth

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

— Yogi Berra

On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!

— Ursula Bloom

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

— Joseph Barbera

The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the…

— Mark Kurlansky

Whether baseball or football, we're tasked in front offices with making decisions under uncertainty. How do you corral that uncertainty in a…

— Paul DePodesta

While American ballplayers from Mickey Mantle to David Ortiz have flipped their bats, the act is still perceived as a great offense…

— Mina Kimes

It took him 75 steps to get from third to home. I thought we were going to have to go out there…

— Derek Jeter

You're so excited to be in the big leagues the first couple of years, you concentrate on establishing yourself and doing anything…

— Ryan Zimmerman

Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't…

— Mickey Mantle

I work for the Chicago Cubs, a team with a following so loyal and adoring and a history so forlorn that we…

— Theo Epstein

“I would really like that, Betsy, to cheer and jeer and hoot and root alongside a band of brothers. I would love…

— Joshua Ferris

It enrages me to see only certain players singled out for the Hall of Fame because they were born with a God-given…

— Bert Blyleven

“I wish I trusted people more,” Jeter has said. “But when I meet someone, the first thing is, ‘What does this person…

— Joseph Bottum

I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I…

— Richard Corliss

I didn't do any football stuff when I was a kid... Mostly baseball and basketball the whole time. That's all I did.…

— Patrick Mahomes

If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

When you're caring with your head, there are the things that we talked about that seems boring in baseball. But when you…

— Mike Pesca

I notice a lot of hitters fraternize with pitchers. I see guys laughing and giggling before the game. These are the same…

— Albert Belle

They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick…

— Casey Stengel

The system is in place whereby if an umpire cries off, or both as was the case here, those umpires are to…

— Mark Webber

I think if you keep trying to have quality at-bats the hits will come.

— Kyle Schwarber

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

— Alice Duer Miller

I'm really into basketball, baseball, football and working out - but you'll never catch me in a public sauna.

— Joey Lawrence

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me

— Yoenis Cespedes

Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

— Jimmy Breslin

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

— George Carlin

“Baseball can indeed break your heart, but, without fail, it will always find a way to make it whole again.”

— Stacey May Fowles

It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.

— Andy Pettitte

I come from a city like St. Louis, where they consider themselves great baseball fans.

— Joe Buck

Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.

— Nate Silver

“You can get base hits or home runs, but you can’t get a grand slam without both.”

— Richie Norton

Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.

— Joe Torre

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

— Mickey Rivers

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

— Roberto Clemente

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford…

— Mickey Mantle