Baseball Quotes · Page 87

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

I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.

— Brett Young

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

— Kyle Schwarber

At the age of 7 I said, 'I know what I'm gonna be in life and I'm gonna be a Major League…

— John Smoltz

Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.

— Richard M. Nixon

I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball…

— J. J. Hardy

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a…

— Mark Teixeira

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest…

— Jonathan Raymond

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but…

— Steve Finley

I've always been a fan of Derek Jeter. Guys that consistently, throughout a long-term career, that not only have success but are…

— John Cena

I have family and friends who are strong Cardinal fans, and they are having a tough time since I signed. They want…

— Ben Zobrist

I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is…

— Sadaharu Oh

When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second…

— Pablo Sandoval

“Baseball, in its quiet way, was an extravagantly harrowing game. Football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse--these were melee sports. You could make yourself useful…

— Chad Harbach

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but…

— Shemar Moore

My first baseman is George "Catfish" Metkovich from our 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates team, which lost 112 games. After a terrible series against…

— Joe Garagiola

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out,…

— Mary Schmich

I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how…

— Phil Niekro

I love baseball games. I got to go to World Series last year. I watch almost every Cubs game. If I can't…

— Elisabeth Moss

“Sometimes a strikeout means that the slugger’s girlfriend just ran off with the UPS driver. Sometimes a muffed ground ball means that…

— David James Duncan

I'm in my truck talking to Jesus. And you can see a World Series ring on my right pinkie finger. But when…

— Denis Leary

In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.

— Muhammad Ali

Being part of a couple of World Series championships will give you some sense of comfort.

— Brandon Crawford

Never let the fear of striking out, keeps you from playing the game.

— Jai Rathour

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

— Bradley Whitford

Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

— Andy Pettitte

I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.

— Yu Darvish

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

— Josh Beckett

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

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

— Leonard Robert Davids

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

— Tommy Lasorda