Baseball Quotes · Page 75

As soon as you start thinking about home runs, especially with me, my approach starts going the wrong way.

— Xander Bogaerts

Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.

— Gil Hodges

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

— Mickey Mantle

Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.

— Paul Konerko

Ron Washington is the most influential baseball man in my life.

— Marcus Semien

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how…

— Mickey Mantle

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

— Pete Rose

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

— George Brett

When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could…

— Mo'ne Davis

A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I…

— Ryan Zimmerman

I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder.…

— Greg Maddux

Life is like a baseball game, you will never what will happen unless you swing the bat and take the risk of…

— Anonymous

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his…

— Joe Torre

I think the important thing now, getting closer to the pitch counts, it feels like I got something left. I felt I…

— Roy Halladay

The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out…

— Dan Uggla

Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where…

— George Will

There's just not a lot of inventory, and to find a shortstop or a catcher, or a centerfielder, that you think that…

— Kevin Towers

“Do you have a favorite team?” He smirked. Literally smirked. “There's only one New York team.” Alexa fought past the nausea and…

— Jennifer Probst

Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I think there's a lot of trust in being selectively aggressive I guess. Looking for your pitch you can drive, but not…

— Alex Bregman

“So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you. And I…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the…

— Bill Lee

I didn't do any football stuff when I was a kid... Mostly baseball and basketball the whole time. That's all I did.…

— Patrick Mahomes

If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

I kind of wish I would have been able to see the old Yankee Stadium after seeing the new one.

— Aaron Judge

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

— Bob Costas

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

— Vida Blue

Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching.

— Thurman Munson

I consider myself a very driven baseball player who wants to be better.

— Tommy Pham

I don't miss playing for the Yankees. I miss my friends, my teammates.

— Rafael Soriano

I think baseball is a very fine game, and you have to enjoy it. You have to go out there and have…

— Miguel Cabrera

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

— Ken Wahl

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

— Bob Gibson

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

— Jorge Posada

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

— Bengie Molina

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

— Bryce Harper

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

— Bill Veeck

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

— Trea Turner

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

— Bill Madlock

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

— Jay Chandrasekhar