Baseball Quotes · Page 80

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

— Jerry Coleman

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

— Bill Veeck

I knew I shouldn't have given @50cent pitching advice...sorry man

— Gary Dell'Abate

There are certain times when you see a guy, and you say, 'He's a big-leaguer.'

— Paul DePodesta

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

— Joe Torre

When you have good baseball players, you have a chance to win. And when you don't, you don't.

— Joe Maddon

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

— Mickey Mantle

Baseball ultimately is a drama without a script. It's the original reality TV.

— Paul DePodesta

What you have to understand is that the first day I picked up a bat I made an impression on my older…

— Brian Lara

When you're famous, you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full…

— Noel Fielding

The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the…

— Greg Maddux

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that…

— Hideki Matsui

I remember when replay first came to TV. I can't remember who it was now, but a manager came out to beef…

— Doug Harvey

All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).

— Johnny Vander Meer

Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way…

— Jerry Coleman

It must be nice for today's hitters when you don't have to worry about being thrown at. It's a whole different deal.…

— Harmon Killebrew

To be a great poker player, you're going to have to learn this fact: Everything that's said at a poker table is…

— Daniel Negreanu

If you are facing a guy with a high walk rate, shrink the zone a little bit. If another pitcher has a…

— Marcus Semien

I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have…

— John Madden

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to…

— Bob Gibson

He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his…

— Andy Roddick

“So it's a strife here, in a way, between position—between the CEO and the top salesman; between the principal and the best…

— Timothy B. Shutt

Speaking on all of it in general, I think we, as MMA fighters, should be getting paid just as well as the…

— Anthony Johnson

I wonder what happened to that guy that poked Chuck Noris…??

— Anonymous

If the pitch is away, hit it away. If the pitch is in, pull it.

— Kyle Schwarber

I get bored of watching baseball on TV. It's repetitive to me.

— Aroldis Chapman

I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I'd not make it. No. Never.

— Justin Verlander

It's unbelievable how much talent there is among shortstops. They all bring something a little different to the table.

— Trea Turner

I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.

— Joe Torre

Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

— Jerry Coleman

Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.

— Casey Stengel

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.

— David Cassidy

Every time I walk to the plate I feel like I can dominate a game with my bat if I'm right.

— Chipper Jones

I'm usually the little kid that runs around all excited that he's just in the big leagues playing the game of baseball.

— Francisco Lindor

Sometimes you try to find a way to get the pitcher out of his mind and try to get him out of…

— Juan Soto

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

— Babe Ruth

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

— Roger Kahn

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

— Casey Stengel

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti