Baseball Quotes · Page 71

I don't know that we'll ever see a 3,000-strikeout guy again.

— John Smoltz

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

— Ernie Harwell

I think Tim Wakefield would even say tonight that Tim Wakefield got to Tim Wakefield tonight,

— Tim McCarver

I always give pitchers a hard time about it not being that hard.

— Brandon Crawford

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.

— Don Yaeger

The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy.

— Frank Deford

I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees.

— Gordon Beckham

I was kind of a slap hitter, trying to get base hits, hit line drives, stay below a certain trajectory with my…

— Ben Zobrist

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes…

— Casey Stengel

Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching…

— Bruce Sutter

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

— Bill Vaughan

There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I…

— Dave Winfield

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and…

— Howard Staunton

The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking…

— Billy Herman

The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the…

— Paul DePodesta

When you're going into a game, you're not expected to hit a home run every game. You're just doing everything proper with…

— Frank Thomas

I've always noticed how the Fenway fans get behind the pitcher, especially late in the game if you're having a good game,…

— David Cone

I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it…

— Carl Yastrzemski

I had a lot of friends, family friends, that had season tickets, and we'd all go when we were little kids. And…

— Christian Yelich

I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit,…

— Jacob deGrom

I had Tommy John my first year in pro ball. Going through that rehab process, I think that's what really helped me…

— Jacob deGrom

I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS,…

— Herbert Hoover

People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe's record,…

— Hank Aaron

In college, I was like most young men, doing what pleased me and looking out mainly for my own interest. I had…

— Luke Scott

I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!

— Yogi Berra

Sometimes pitchers' duels are just as interesting as home-run affairs.

— Cris Collinsworth

For me, I'm not going to be hitting the ball out of the ballpark. I know that.

— Max Scherzer

I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust

— Artie Lange

My goal is not to create a better baseball player but to create a superhuman that just happens to play baseball.

— Ryan Howard

Hip flexibility is genetic to a degree, and the most gifted hitters have won both the genetic and mechanical lottery.

— Gabe Kapler

The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.

— Mitch Williams

You see him coming in with an 0-2 record and a 5 ERA and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?

— Mark Buehrle

I grew up boxing and I loved it, but I realized, 'Man, in baseball, you don't get hit as much.'

— Carlos Correa

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

— Sparky Anderson

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

— Lawrence Ritter

When I first saw Batman, I was expecting to see a baseball movie.

— Hussein Nishah

“You can learn a lot from a professional baseball player, if you can get one, which obviously you can't.”

— Dimitra Ekmektsis

I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.

— Jerry Coleman

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

— Tim McCarver

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.

— Curt Flood