Baseball Quotes · Page 84

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

— Pete Rose

“baseball should be played for the love of the game and not the almighty dollar. I”

— Lori Wilde

Baseball continues, life continues, and I have to continue to work.

— Carlos Ruiz

I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.

— Matt Kemp

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

— Jennifer Garner

I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.

— Eddie Murray

I don't want anybody to panic. I'm not pitching. I'm just throwing out the first ball.

— Phil Niekro

I never think Im going to make a double play in the outfield. But I did it.

— Alfonso Soriano

I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees from the…

— Tony La Russa

For me, it's just a cleaner game with the DH. You know what's going on. You know the lineup. The pitcher can…

— Ryan Zimmerman

Votto's a guy I love to watch. I think the numbers will tell you that he's the best in the game at…

— Buster Posey

I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a…

— Ryan Braun

I have power, but focus on the overall athletic event - the technique you have to execute before acquiring the knockout. You…

— Keith Thurman

Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.

— Wade Clark Mackey

I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub…

— Arj Barker

“One thing led to another. That was the only way to explain how Arnold Brinkman, who considered both professional sports and young…

— Jacob M. Appel

I didn't play baseball my entire life, so I do bring something a little more unique to the telecast and I get…

— Jessica Mendoza

“Q. What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? —Ellen McManis Let’s…

— Randall Munroe

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss…

— Ray Dalio

Sometimes, on the business side, it's important to sort of have something with some sizzle in an offseason. It's the baseball operations…

— Theo Epstein

Early in my career when I was with Montreal, we had a lot of good outfielders like Otis Nixon, myself, Marquis Grissom…

— Dave Martinez

When I was a little-leaguer, I was sort of famous for stealing bases - and it started only because my mom wanted…

— Rickey Henderson

Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't…

— Bill Maher

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of…

— Willie Mays

He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

— George Steinbrenner

The pitch shot is a very important one for everyone. The trick is to get the ball landing softly.

— Shane Lowry

If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.

— Tommy Lasorda

I love coaching football, don't get me wrong. But I just love baseball.

— Rex Ryan

Dad liked to self-deprecatingly joke about his career, but Ernie Johnson was a pretty darn good relief pitcher.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

Off on a natural charge, bon voyage. Yeah, from the home of the Dodgers, Brooklyn squad.

— Old Dirty Bastard

“As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: “Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.”

— L. Jon Wertheim

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

— Jon Bernthal

I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.

— Mike Ditka

Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper?

— Max Scherzer

I played baseball when I was younger, but the idea of the college scholarship enticed me to switch over to softball.

— Jessica Mendoza

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

— Pete Rose

Quality is more important to quantity ,one home ð run is much better than two double

— Steve Jobs

I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

— Jerry Ferrara

It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.

— Joe Mauer

What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

— Tug McGraw