Baseball Quotes · Page 61

Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.

— Ron Luciano

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

— Harrison Ford

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

— Casey Stengel

There are a handful of guys who can really throw in the outfield.

— Ryan Zimmerman

There's things that I've been through in golf that baseball couldn't even prepare me for.

— John Smoltz

You can play football and be the next Jim Brown or play baseball and be the next Reggie Jackson.

— Reggie Jackson

Oh man... growing up, I played everything. I played football, basketball, baseball.

— Ricky Stenhouse Jr

I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

— Josh Beckett

I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up,…

— Chick Hearn

I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman,…

— Casey Stengel

George Steinbrenner forever changed baseball and hopefully someday we will see him honored in baseball's Hall of Fame as one of the…

— John W. Henry

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for…

— Ty Cobb

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is…

— Neville Cardus

Sandy Koufax is a great teacher. He just talks about competitiveness and being aggressive - about stride length, power, how to spin…

— Clayton Kershaw

Baseball is a beautiful sport, it's our sport. We have a responsibility as the baseball community to progress the game forward and…

— Carlos Correa

Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five…

— Terry Vaughn

You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preached to our young guys…

— Tim Hudson

Cold weather probably played a bigger role in bringing back the hat, but sadly, the hat common to New Jersey guidos, South…

— Roger Stone

I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do,…

— Pedro Martinez

There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting…

— Laurie Colwin

Use emotional awareness and pay attention to your body - look [and locate] concrete physical sensations - like stabbing, aching, throbbing -…

— Gary Zukav

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders,…

— Jamie Bamber

“Waiting for the Cardinals-Dodgers winner, the Red Sox decided to try to keep their edge by playing an exhibition series at Fenway…

— Ben Bradlee Jr

Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“We each have a home run waiting for us, but we have to keep swinging the bat.”

— Joyce Meyer

I'm technically not stealing the base because I own the field.

— Anonymous

It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's…

— Larry Goetz

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

— Ty Cobb

[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.

— W. P. Kinsella

A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.

— Ken Singleton

When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.

— Jim Brosnan

Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

— George Herbert

I always tell myself to bat the full day, and if there is a ball to be hit, just hit it.

— Virender Sehwag

You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.

— Mickey Mantle

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

— Ryan Cabrera

When you retire from baseball, you have until the day you die to rest.

— Ichiro Suzuki

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

— Manny Machado

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

— Carlton Fisk

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

— Babe Ruth

The way I feel as baseball players we are warriors. Our job is to be ready to do what we need to…

— Aroldis Chapman