Baseball Quotes · Page 133

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

— Gene Mauch

I love baseball so much, ever since I was a child playing during the summers.

— The Miz

“She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.”

— W.P. Kinsella

If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.

— Pee Wee Reese

I really enjoyed being able to get my first home run in the big leagues.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

I realized if and when I ever put my mind strictly to baseball. I can do some things very few people in…

— Pat Connaughton

I like it when every pitch counts. There are a lot of people who see it as a negative, but I try…

— Eric Gagne

Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against…

— Bob Uecker

All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want…

— Rafael Soriano

I let my numbers speak for themselves. I really do. I mean, all of these one-cut runners, you put their numbers up…

— LeSean McCoy

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can…

— Anonymous

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the…

— Joe Garagiola

I think I'm constantly trying to grow as a pitcher. You start going out there, you're learning stuff, you're finding different ways…

— Matt Cain

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things…

— Carlos Delgado

There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the…

— Hack Wilson

You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you…

— Jon Lester

The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you…

— Barry S. Strauss

I could not have taken what he took, sliding into second base and having a guy stand over you and spit on…

— Vernon Law

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a…

— Bill Bryson

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come…

— David Beckham

I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will.…

— George Will

How can we all be better? We can be better by constantly evolving and not saying, Because baseball has always had men,…

— Jessica Mendoza

You look back at the '95 season, and a lot of those guys were getting mega minutes. Michael Jordan was out playing…

— Scottie Pippen

'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow…

— Joe Lieberman

I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique.

— Ichiro Suzuki

“Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.”

— Vernon D. Burns

I'd find the fellow who lost it [million dollars], and, if he was poor, I'd return it.

— Yogi Berra

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

— Anonymous

“That's like bringing a guy up from the minors to pitch the World Series.”

— Mario Puzo

The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.

— Pete Rose

Winning the World Series is really all that we play this game for.

— Clayton Kershaw

I never had any lessons in baseball; I just watched on TV and tried to copy what I saw.

— John Smoltz

You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

— Pete Rose

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

— Jeff Jarvis

...the ending's gonna be great. That's what I'm convinced of.

— Dusty Baker

You don't want to end up with a huge tally of runs after eight games but with your team out of contention.

— Gautam Gambhir

I enjoy coming to the ballpark every day. I don't go to work. I come here to play.

— Scott Rolen

My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out, sometimes by striking them out.

— Tom Seaver

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.

— Mike Schmidt

Baseball is my first love, and it's what I know, and it's what I'll do until I can't do it anymore, and…

— Jake Peavy