Baseball Quotes · Page 88

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

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 was such a screw up when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.

— Curt Schilling

It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.

— Mickey Mantle

Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

— Vin Scully

Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.

— Mark McGwire

I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions…

— Joe Torre

I like to challenge hitters with a 'Here it is, hit it,' mentality. It's definitely a big part of my game, especially…

— Justin Verlander

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then…

— Tom Seaver

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's…

— Garth Brooks

“Sometimes I lie awake ay night, and I wonder, "is life like golf or is it more like baseball?" Then a voice…

— Charles M. Schulz

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred…

— Dave Winfield

Where I'm from, Bastrop, Louisiana, you played football, basketball, and baseball; you ran track - and that was about it.

— Ronnie Coleman

I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.

— Ray Dandridge

I was constantly searching for something and you kid yourself that someone out there has got that secret to batting that they…

— Jos Buttler

There are three types of pitchers you have to deal with. Some, you just have to tell what town they're in, remind…

— Johnny Bench

The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them…

— John Dickerson

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used…

— Willie Mays

The game can come down to one pitch. But when you're actually out there on the mound and when you're pitching, you…

— Max Scherzer

I think the biggest thing that I learned, and why I've fallen in love with baseball, is how mental of a game…

— Kylie Bunbury

We've said from the beginning when we traded Richie (Sexson), we're trading home runs for doubles and the ability to manufacture runs...…

— Ned Yost

“One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit…

— R.A. Dickey

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

— Hank Aaron

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

— David Cone

Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

— Al Stump

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

— Dan Quisenberry

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

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

— Jorge Posada

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

— Bob Gibson

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

— Ken Wahl

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

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

— Jonathan Weeks