Baseball Quotes · Page 62

Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.

— Jerry Coleman

When you're not hitting and they're making good pitches, it's hard.

— Cody Bellinger

There is nothing I will miss about Japanese baseball. Off the field, I will miss my dog.

— Ichiro Suzuki

I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it's the simplest to watch.

— Joe Garagiola

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

— Jim Bouton

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

— Joe DiMaggio

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

— Willie Stargell

I don't care much about my personal record. I just want to be able to pitch in the playoffs.

— CC Sabathia

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

— Bill Goldberg

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by…

— Reggie Jackson

Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.

— Robert Orben

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be…

— Michael Wilbon

I'm proud to wear a Reds uniform, and I look forward to doing that until the last day of my Major League…

— Joey Votto

I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're…

— Jose Altuve

I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I…

— Jim Abbott

In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't…

— Chuck Klosterman

I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other…

— Lindsey Nelson

I think there's a growing number of pitchers who want to have a plan going into a game about how they're going…

— Tony La Russa

“if gross miscalculations of a person’s value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a…

— Michael Lewis

I was definitely honored to be chosen, but I just didn't feel ready to be pitching in big games yet. It was…

— CC Sabathia

Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or…

— Frank Robinson

“I have explained many times that I am, by Profession, a Gambler -- not some jock-sniffing nerd or a hired human squawk-box…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization:…

— Gerald Early

Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself…

— Kate Chopin

I know what I'm capable of doing when I'm on the baseball field. And I can repeat it every single day.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.

— Chuck Dressen

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

— Sam McDowell

I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect to have success on the baseball field and the football field.

— Kyler Murray

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

— Babe Ruth

Hating the (New York) Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax

— Mike Royko

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

— Jimmy Fallon

As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.

— Carl Everett

If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.

— Whitey Herzog

In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor.

— Florence King

I played American football, but I did my best work with baseball.

— Steve Miller

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

— Joe Garagiola

The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.

— Johnny Bench

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

— Rodney Dangerfield

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

— Dusty Baker

The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress…

— John Calipari