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 Copy Share Image
You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you… — Jon Lester Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
“The future is as far from perfect and as full of errors as this baseball game, but at this moment, it's all… — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you… — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries,… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I remember my parents would say, 'Baseball is what you do, but that's not who you are'… — Sean Doolittle Copy Share Image
Boston is both a world-class city, home to some of the best academic and medical institutions on the planet, and a quirkily… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
If I hurt somebody's feelings, I go right to them and talk to them and explain what happens. Sometimes I'm mad at… — Carlos Zambrano Copy Share Image
If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit… — Yogi Berra Copy Share Image
I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In 1906, I developed pleurisy and was unable to get into condition. So I asked for my release and obtained it. So… — Kid Nichols Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to strike them out, but there are certain situations, when it's an 0-2 count or a 1-2 count, when… — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you… — Bobby Murcer Copy Share Image
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell,… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and… — Jake Peavy Copy Share Image
As a supporter of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and their Home Run Challenge program, I am extremely grateful for the valuable partnerships… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood… — Alan Ritchson Copy Share Image
I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
I remember, at least in Little League, we tried to be like everybody. So my first at-bat, I can be like Robinson… — Juan Soto Copy Share Image
I played soccer and baseball, and that's all. But what if I had been the best at like, ballet? And I didn't… — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
I think you need to go to Triple-A for a while and experience big league pitching on the way down and prospects… — Chipper Jones Copy Share Image
Umpiring is a tough job. Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't want to be an umpire. You've got a split second… — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
“…I never expected to lose in court. In practice, I did lose, of course. Every lawyer loses, just as every baseball player… — William Landay Copy Share Image
In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf… — Maurice Greene Copy Share Image
You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is… — Rafael Palmeiro Copy Share Image
A pitcher's windup and throw is an explosive, coordinated full-body movement. They perform the move once, then rest, then perform it again.… — Gabe Kapler Copy Share Image
There are different angles you have to work with as a hitter. Figuring out with my body what helps me get into… — Ben Zobrist Copy Share Image
“Since 2008, batters have hit only .175 against pitches thrown at 100 m.p.h. or above. Batting averages go up as the speed… — Barry Bearak Copy Share Image
We have a lot of freedom to express ourselves. When you see us playing on the field, I guess you can make… — Rohit Sharma Copy Share Image
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be… — Alvin Dark Copy Share Image
One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and… — Bob Lutz Copy Share Image
I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
