Baseball Quotes · Page 77

It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.

— Miles Davis

When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.

— Bob Uecker

All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.

— Fred Willard

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH in the National League.

— George Brett

If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball.

— Prince Fielder

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it…

— Joe Garagiola

In spring training I'm in every newspaper (in Korea) every day. In the regular season, they watch it on TV.

— Hee-seop Choi

To hit a home run in any part of the game is an amazing feeling. To me, that's the best part of…

— Ronald Acuna Jr

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my…

— Charles Kuralt

Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball.…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

I always say that I think the most perfect job in baseball is the assistant general manager because you're not the guy…

— Chipper Jones

I've dealt with expectations my whole life and have been blessed to be able to play at a high level, whether it's…

— Kyler Murray

There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hitter, and I've lasted…

— Tim Wakefield

Whenever my dad would take me to practice, he'd make sure that we took just as much time fielding groundballs as we…

— Brandon Crawford

I don't really miss pitching in games, and I don't think my arm could hold up. I would still love to try…

— Cody Bellinger

I had a good run here, fifteen years. That's a great run. I'm not saying that I'm done in center field -…

— Bernie Williams

It enrages me to see only certain players singled out for the Hall of Fame because they were born with a God-given…

— Bert Blyleven

Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American…

— Mark Kurlansky

These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that.…

— Tom Seaver

I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I…

— Joe Gibbs

Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to…

— David Brin

To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to…

— Charles Comiskey

When I was a boy, I had a baseball team of my own. We played on a vacant lot between Ninetieth and…

— Jacob Ruppert

It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid…

— Richard Pound

Batter strikeouts continue to go up like the Consumer Price Index.

— Leonard Robert Davids

The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow.

— Manny Trillo

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

— Bill Veeck

I'm going to the All-Star Game as an Oriole and as a shortstop. It's just always a blessing. I thank God.

— Manny Machado

I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one…

— Tommy Lasorda

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

— Babe Ruth

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.

— George Bernard Shaw

When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.

— Jerry Coleman

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

— Roberto Clemente

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

— Finn Wittrock

“...the Big Red Machine was exactly that—a freaking machine.”

— Tucker Elliot

Pitching is just a giant game of chess. Predicting your opponents next move to stay one step ahead.

— Anonymous

When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.

— Nicki Minaj

If I can execute pitches and keep the ball out of the middle of the plate, I know I can have success.

— Max Scherzer

If you play well on the field, everything will take care of itself.

— Derek Jeter

This is what you live to play baseball for is playing in front of your home crowd in the playoffs.

— Kyle Schwarber