Baseball Quotes · Page 65

I'm going to have a high on-base, so you're going to be on base for the dudes behind you.

— Kyle Schwarber

If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

— Tom Seaver

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

— Bill Terry

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

— Jerry Coleman

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

— Bill Veeck

I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

— Bryce Harper

I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

— Bengie Molina

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

— Jorge Posada

“While I’m no Major League Baseball prospect, I have thrown a few no-hitters in my day. And not only were there no…

— Jarod Kintz

When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if…

— Jim Leyland

I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing…

— Honus Wagner

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the…

— Rogers Hornsby

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball,…

— Pat Gillick

I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a…

— Prince Fielder

There's plenty of situations where we'll come up with guys on base, less than two outs, and those are opportunities for us…

— Jake Arrieta

People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

— Pete Incaviglia

Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at…

— Sammy Sosa

It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent…

— Sandy Alderson

“World Series MVP is a unique individual honor because with one exception—Bobby Richardson won 1960 World Series MVP honors for the Yankees,…

— Tucker Elliot

The offseason after the 2014 season, I worked with hitting coach Damon Mashore. I always had power in batting practice but couldn't…

— Cody Bellinger

Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to…

— Marcus Sakey

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating…

— Michael Lewis

You know who first started calling me 'The Cowboy' - Paul Richards. He loved to play golf and when he came to…

— Gene Autry

I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who…

— Tommy Lasorda

My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

— Bob Gibson

I don't know if I would have made the major leagues, but I would have gotten to at least Triple-A.

— Ken Wahl

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

— Jonathan Weeks

Like hitting a baseball, comedy is very much about timing. To some degree, you either 'got it or you don't.'

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there.

— Bill Madlock

If the opportunity is there to steal a base, I try to steal it.

— Trea Turner

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

— Dan Quisenberry

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

— David Cone

Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

— Al Stump

All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.

— Fred Willard

It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.

— Miles Davis

When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.

— Bob Uecker

I was such a screw up when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.

— Curt Schilling

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

— Hank Aaron

Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.

— Mark McGwire

It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.

— Mickey Mantle