Baseball Quotes · Page 24

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

— Alvin Dark

The Cubs are due in sixty-two.

— Ernie Banks

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

— Rod Carew

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

— Johnny Damon

I try to lay off those pitches down in the dirt.

— Marcus Semien

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.

— Tim McCarver

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

— Bo Jackson

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.

— Lee MacPhail

When you get strike one, strike two, you're putting pressure on them to swing at your pitches.

— Patrick Corbin

I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope.

— Jon Hamm

That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

— Jerry Coleman

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

— Anonymous

Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.

— Jon Lester

People strike out. I strike out a lot - it happens. Just got to keep working.

— Aaron Judge

I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York…

— Ian Astbury

One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is…

— Anthony Rizzo

I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

— Dave Winfield

Any time you go through a stretch where you don't hit a homer for a while, it's just natural to start to…

— Buster Posey

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to…

— George Steinbrenner

He's (his father Jorge Posada IV) happy for me. He remembers all of my big games. When I hit my first home…

— Jorge Posada

I promised myself a few years ago that if I ever got to manage winter ball again or in the minor leagues…

— Alex Cora

I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe…

— Kirby Puckett

Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.

— Monte Irvin

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of…

— Jim Courier

My biggest thing is I need to see a lot of pitches, which I did today. That's good. The more pitches you…

— Mark Teixeira

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the…

— Anonymous

Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more…

— Barbara Holland

If you're a baseball player and you're on the mound, you don't ever want to look up in the stands if somebody…

— Tiger Woods

“If the team didn't pay whatever Boras asked, Boras would encourage his client to take a year off of baseball and reenter…

— Anonymous

“Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones said after Moyer threw a two-hit shutout against his team in May 2010. “The guy is eighty-seven years…

— Jamie Moyer

I don't think it's the intent of baseball not to have black ballplayers, but we have to find a way to get…

— Ken Griffey Jr

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

— Ty Cobb

Baseball players get better by playing baseball.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

— Jerry Coleman

I used to play baseball. I was playing even in high school.

— King Von

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

— Babe Ruth

Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

— Babe Ruth

I was the first person in my family to play baseball.

— Christian Yelich

I'm a baseball player. I've done this my whole life.

— Chris Sale