Baseball Quotes · Page 72

I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced.

— Mark McGwire

Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1.

— Trevor Hoffman

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

— Joe Torre

His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.

— Mickey Mantle

Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies

— Gabby Hartnett

It's weird coming into a game in the later innings, in a World Series game.

— Cody Bellinger

We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!

— Jerry Coleman

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

— Bobby Bonilla

To put it better, we believe the radar gun will get you drafted, but you have to pitch to get to the…

— Roy Clark

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

— Chili Davis

If you throw 200 innings or more, you have to be in shape. If you work on your diet and strength, it…

— Carlos Zambrano

In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver…

— Waldemar Kaempffert

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.

— Ryne Sandberg

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

— Peter Ueberroth

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him…

— Yogi Berra

With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume…

— David Cone

My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect…

— Yoenis Cespedes

Letting the ball travel is an important mental cue. It's simply about making an attempt to see the ball and to slow…

— Gabe Kapler

It would be a nice way to finish my career by remembering that I batted cleanup in the game in which my…

— Darren Daulton

There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile,…

— Waite Hoyt

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit,…

— Dan Rather

“Big Papi placed among the top five in Most Valuable Player balloting during his first five seasons with the Red Sox. His…

— Tucker Elliot

“Gary Bell is nicknamed Ding Dong. Of course. What’s interesting about it is that “Ding Dong” is what the guys holler when…

— Jim Bouton

I don't like to sound immodest, but I believe in what I can do. Sometimes it's been frustrating because I haven't gotten…

— Martin Landau

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

— Dizzy Dean

I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.

— Jamie Moyer

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

— Aroldis Chapman

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

— Babe Ruth

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

— Carlton Fisk

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

— Ichiro Suzuki

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

— Cody Bellinger

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

— Jerry Coleman

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

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

— Jim Brosnan

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

— Ken Singleton

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

— W. P. Kinsella

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

— Ty Cobb

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