Baseball Quotes · Page 92

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

— Sam McDowell

I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect to have success on the baseball field and the football field.

— Kyler Murray

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

— Babe Ruth

The way I feel as baseball players we are warriors. Our job is to be ready to do what we need to…

— Aroldis Chapman

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

— Carlton Fisk

When you're not hitting and they're making good pitches, it's hard.

— Cody Bellinger

There is nothing I will miss about Japanese baseball. Off the field, I will miss my dog.

— Ichiro Suzuki

Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.

— Jerry Coleman

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A…

— Ernie Harwell

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I…

— Earl Monroe

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would…

— Bill James

I was still playing basketball and baseball - everything else I wanted to do as a kid. Modeling was a chance to…

— Michael B. Jordan

What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy…

— George Steinbrenner

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

— Heywood Broun

The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at…

— Charles Kuralt

Defensively, hitting-wise, running the bases. There's always room to improve. That motivates me to get a little better every day.

— Aaron Judge

Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and…

— John Updike

I don't like to sound immodest, but I believe in what I can do. Sometimes it's been frustrating because I haven't gotten…

— Martin Landau

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning.…

— John Podhoretz

I didn't ever realize that my ceiling would be this high, that I would be able to play at the major-league level.…

— Ben Zobrist

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I…

— Tobin Bell

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung…

— Alex Bregman

My first and foremost goal when I joined the Yankees was to win the world championship. Certainly it's been a long road…

— Hideki Matsui

“Baseball's Sad Lexicon These are the saddest of possible words: Tinker to Evers to Chance. Trio of Bear-cubs, fleeter than birds, Tinker…

— Franklin Robert Adams

When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.

— Jim Brosnan

Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

— George Herbert

I always tell myself to bat the full day, and if there is a ball to be hit, just hit it.

— Virender Sehwag

You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.

— Mickey Mantle

A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.

— Ken Singleton

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

— Ty Cobb

[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.

— W. P. Kinsella

It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's…

— Larry Goetz

“We each have a home run waiting for us, but we have to keep swinging the bat.”

— Joyce Meyer

I'm technically not stealing the base because I own the field.

— Anonymous

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

— Manny Machado

When you retire from baseball, you have until the day you die to rest.

— Ichiro Suzuki

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

— Ryan Cabrera

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

— George Carlin

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

— Casey Stengel

I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.

— Mae Whitman