Baseball Quotes · Page 73

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

— Anonymous

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

— Joyce Meyer

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

— Manny Machado

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

— Ichiro Suzuki

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

— Ryan Cabrera

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

— Johnny Bench

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

— Joe Garagiola

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

— Steve Miller

Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the…

— Pedro Martinez

My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life…

— Chris Lane

He (Buck Showaleter) never even smelled a jock in the big leagues. Mr. Baseball never even got a hit in Triple-A. I…

— Ozzie Guillen

Where I came from with the Twins, they were passionate about baseball. Through thick and thin, it was, 'Let's go.' It's something…

— Jacque Jones

The only difference between baseball guys or football guys and wrestling guys is that when you go to the game, you see…

— Harley Race

Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need…

— Christine Pelosi

Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how…

— Larry Doby

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

— George Will

Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and…

— John Updike

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning.…

— John Podhoretz

I didn't ever realize that my ceiling would be this high, that I would be able to play at the major-league level.…

— Ben Zobrist

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I…

— Tobin Bell

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung…

— Alex Bregman

My first and foremost goal when I joined the Yankees was to win the world championship. Certainly it's been a long road…

— Hideki Matsui

“Baseball's Sad Lexicon These are the saddest of possible words: Tinker to Evers to Chance. Trio of Bear-cubs, fleeter than birds, Tinker…

— Franklin Robert Adams

A lot of times, I've always looked at pitching in the All-Star Game as a prelude to how you pitch in the…

— Max Scherzer

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

— Florence King

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

— Dusty Baker

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

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

— Chuck Dressen

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

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

— CC Sabathia

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

— Willie Stargell

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

— Joe DiMaggio

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

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

— Joe Garagiola

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

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

— Mike Royko

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

— Babe Ruth

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

— Kyler Murray