I'm not a strikeout guy, I don't want to be a strikeout guy. For me to do that, I can't ride the… — Kyle Schwarber Copy Share Image
If you're a starting pitcher, the ball's in your hands and all eyes are you. And when you're kicking, either you missed… — Stephen Gostkowski Copy Share Image
The leadoff-hitter thing, I think, it's always nice to have an established leadoff hitter and to have someone who can really get… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
Mind you, as a little boy, I always had other interests from most kids. I was not a boy who rubbed around… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going… — Yogi Berra Copy Share Image
There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day?… — Eric Davis Copy Share Image
I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got… — Stan Coveleski Copy Share Image
Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person.… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me... Every year I… — John Kruk Copy Share Image
“That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“It’s one thing to win a game with a base hit, or to save a game by pitching a scoreless ninth ...… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
The baby woke up before you did. I took him to the other room to let you get a little more sleep.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Derek Jeter has been a great representative of what the Yankees have stood for over the years. He has been a team… — Joe Girardi Copy Share Image
We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a… — Buck Leonard Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to talk about my slider, and how effective it is, but it really can't be without fastball command. It starts… — Patrick Corbin Copy Share Image
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
If every pitching staff is working at a 30- to 40-percent Tommy John rate and DL rate, then how long are those… — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball,… — Dick Williams Copy Share Image
To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a… — Gio Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I think all the accomplishments in this game, I think they mean a little more when you're done, it's over and you're… — Kyle Schwarber Copy Share Image
I wasn't the guy running out to the Viper Room or comedy clubs until three in the morning. I was the guy… — Ralph Macchio Copy Share Image
With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became… — Willie Mays Copy Share Image
I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted,… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased… — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me… — Dizzy Dean Copy Share Image
If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
All you can do is hope that young kids are playing baseball and working hard to make their way up. It takes… — Marcus Semien Copy Share Image
The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Communication is different in the clubhouse than it is in a boardroom. The heartbeat that exists in the clubhouse, you don't find… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
I'm not the type of player that's going to be Johnny Hustle and run down the line and slide to first base.… — Manny Machado Copy Share Image
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third… — Alan Ritchson Copy Share Image
Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to… — Jim Evans Copy Share Image
I have goals I want to set throughout the spring, certain plate appearances, just getting on time. It takes a while, once… — Marcus Semien Copy Share Image
You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us.… — William Anders Copy Share Image
“The foul lines extend through the batter’s box, even though the white chalk lines are not drawn there. If a hit ball… — Dan Formosa Copy Share Image
