Baseball Quotes · Page 89

Like hitting a baseball, comedy is very much about timing. To some degree, you either 'got it or you don't.'

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.

— Mike McCready

I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

— Red Schoendienst

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of…

— Sandy Koufax

Everything is repetition in baseball. When you get all out of whack and do something different, you feel weird.

— Matt Kemp

Dont ever, no matter what, let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

— Anonymous

When you're in a ballgame where you're getting beat, there is some frustration.

— Mack Brown

Spring training is for getting to know your teammates and forming a chemistry. I dont like it.

— Torii Hunter

You're always going to believe in yourself, and I have to thank God for that, but it's pretty hard to believe that…

— Jose Altuve

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time…

— Garth Brooks

After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of…

— Hank Sauer

“Son, no matter where your talent takes you, you’re going to be a man a lot longer than you’re going to be…

— Stephanie Evanovich

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in…

— David Mamet

“Second-baseman Eddie Stanky spoke for the whole team when he shouted at the opposing dugout: “Listen, you yellow-bellied cowards, why don’t you…

— Eric Metaxas

Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football… Baseball is a…

— Luke Salisbury

I don't think I understand the significance yet, as many Americans do, of being in Yankee Stadium. But it's a great place…

— Jack Harrison

It was a crazy series, 1960. The Yankees were predicted to beat us four straight. And on paper, we couldn't match them…

— Vernon Law

It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the…

— Steve Carlton

“And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland,…

— Tom Bissell

In my opinion, I've had the greatest job in the world. I got a chance to be the shortstop for the New…

— Derek Jeter

Our cul de sac we always had roller hockey going on, we had the big backyard, our neighbors had big backyards that…

— T. J. Watt

Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to…

— Frederick Buechner

I very much related to the idea of sexual identity and how it doesn't have to be black and white. When I…

— Dee Rees

When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from…

— Bill Murray

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

— Jerry Coleman

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

— Bill Terry

I'm going to have a high on-base, so you're going to be on base for the dudes behind you.

— Kyle Schwarber

If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

— Tom Seaver

The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.

— George Sisler

I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

— John Cullum

I just want to throw strikes. If I can't throw strikes, I'm worthless.

— Dontrelle Willis

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

— Bob Uecker

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

— Rex Stout

As soon as you start thinking about home runs, especially with me, my approach starts going the wrong way.

— Xander Bogaerts

Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.

— Gil Hodges

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

— Mickey Mantle

Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.

— Paul Konerko

Ron Washington is the most influential baseball man in my life.

— Marcus Semien

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

— George Brett

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

— Pete Rose