Baseball Quotes · Page 58

“Sparky Anderson wasn’t just my favorite manager … he was my mom’s favorite manager.”

— Tucker Elliot

I've always wanted to throw a first pitch out, and nothing like doing it near your hometown where you live.

— Danny Amendola

Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.

— Jerry Coleman

The Marlins were close to signing me, but in the end my wish was to come back to the Yankees.

— Aroldis Chapman

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

— Irvine Welsh

Watching guys win the World Series looks like a lot of fun. I'd kind of like to do that.

— Clayton Kershaw

There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.

— David Wright

I grew up in Southern California, not too far from Dodger Stadium. And my entire family loves baseball.

— Nolan Arenado

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit-and-run and turning two is more important than knowing where to…

— Ryne Sandberg

It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has…

— Tony Oliva

I don't have anything to prove at all. I've pitched in a lot of games. I've had far more good games than…

— Brad Lidge

It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see…

— Alex Rodriguez

I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie…

— Ty Simpkins

If I'm in the rotation, I'm in the rotation. If I'm not, I still will support the guys like I am in…

— Tavon Austin

Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball.…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

The balls definitely carry a lot more. There should be some more home runs this year. Some of the guys on the…

— Andrew Stevenson

Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to…

— George Will

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again,…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on…

— Jim Lonborg

“Good afternoon... My name is Lucy... I'm going to be your right-fielder... Our special today is a misjudged fly-ball. We also have…

— Charles M. Schulz

As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think…

— Anonymous

Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little…

— Jay Leno

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like…

— Frank Zappa

“As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at…

— Bart Giamatti

Bases loaded and nobody out is a pretty impossible situation.

— Clayton Kershaw

Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.

— Ernie Harwell

When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.

— Max Scherzer

Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.

— Charley Pride

If a ball is slightly out of the zone and it's still a hittable pitch, I'm letting it fly a little bit.

— Brandon Crawford

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

— Al Leiter

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter…

— Don Drysdale

I got my first baseball cards as a four-year-old, the 1989 Topps set. I got every Topps set after that.

— Scott Rogowsky

I don't play baseball for money; I play for love of the game.

— Chipper Jones

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.

— Brooks Koepka

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball

— Barry Bonds

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

— Leigh Steinberg

Sometimes you just need a spark, and then boom, boom, boom, now the bats come alive.

— J. D. Martinez

My favorite growing up was Tino Martinez, so I think that would be cool to strike out your favorite player as a…

— Patrick Corbin

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

— Nate Silver

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

— Jack Canfield