Baseball Quotes · Page 74

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

— Sam McDowell

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

— Steve Carlton

Learn the league, learn the pitchers, learn how they're going to go after you.

— Christian Yelich

At the end of the day, I'm a huge baseball fan. I love the game.

— Sean Doolittle

I can't travel without my Sony noise-cancelling, in-ear headphones, my Bluetooth speaker and at least one baseball hat.

— Adrian Lester

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

— Charles Kuralt

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

— Jim Jarmusch

One of the things that was really attractive to me about Fox is they have the NFL, and baseball playoffs.

— Colin Cowherd

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what…

— Andy Van Slyke

My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and…

— Barry Larkin

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for…

— Pete Rose

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run…

— Ray Bradbury

I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.

— Jim Palmer

If we can help all these kids who are working so hard each and every day playing baseball by giving them some…

— Marcus Semien

Any hitter will tell you, whenever you feel right, you're not thinking. If you lose the feel a little bit, you think…

— Kyle Schwarber

Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being…

— Dave Parker

“Former Journey lead singer Steve Perry was a lifelong Giants fan who grew up in the San Joaquin Valley. When the Dodgers…

— andrew baggarly

“[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again,…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I think, as a lot of kids, I had a dream to play Major League Baseball, but I think I was pretty…

— Buster Posey

Oh, for that remarkable and complex economy of motherhood. Those back and forth generosities-where one day a mom ferries the kids to…

— Victoria Redel

People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was…

— Bryce Harper

People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them that Jesus Christ is my…

— Albert Pujols

I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And…

— Ike Barinholtz

“If there was magic in this world, it happened within sight of the three bases and home plate. All the gems in…

— Tee Morris

My whole life, I've been training for something, whether it be baseball or football or wrestling or martial arts.

— Chuck Liddell

As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."

— Yogi Berra

Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

— Aidan Quinn

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

— Thomas Hauser

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

— Yogi Berra

It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't.

— Yogi Berra

It doesn't happen very often that you get eight at-bats in a game.

— Brandon Crawford

I wish I could go up every single time and have guys on base.

— J. D. Martinez

Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.

— Harmon Killebrew

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.

— Joe DiMaggio

I thought the Little League fields were big. You look back now, and its obviously the smallest field you can play on.

— Cody Bellinger

I go from my room to the ballpark and play baseball. I try to keep it simple.

— Manny Machado

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

— John Calipari

The key to beating the Dodgers is to keep them form hugging each other too much.

— Graig Nettles

Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.

— Yu Darvish

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

— Rex Stout