Baseball Quotes · Page 93

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport…

— Henry Chadwick

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

— Tug McGraw

I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.

— Eric Hutchinson

I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

— Harold Ford, Jr

I can maybe depend on my fastball a little more than some other pitchers.

— Aroldis Chapman

I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.

— Brad Ausmus

I'm a shortstop, man. That's where I've played my whole career. Obviously it's a position I take a lot of pride in.

— Xander Bogaerts

Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

— Jay Feaster

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that…

— Pud Galvin

The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove.…

— Jimmy Rollins

I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo…

— Natalie Martinez

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive…

— Tris Speaker

Doing voiceover, they bring you in, you're wearing jeans, you haven't shaved, you're wearing a baseball cap, and you go in, do…

— Chazz Palminteri

I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used to…

— Al Kaline

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's…

— Bob Feller

Playing catch is often the first professional act of the day, it's a transition from personal life to team business. Lastly, as…

— Fernando Perez

“The volume was off, allowing for some pleasing moments of synchresis, such as when the dogs were released from their cages just…

— Kamila Shamsie

Starting in middle school, I would play on two or three baseball teams at the same time, because that's just how things…

— J. D. Martinez

There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness,…

— John Updike

“(Joe) Dimaggio was, in fact, mostly just a cold fish. Not even his brother Dom, who played outfield for the Red Sox...,…

— Frank Deford

My experience over 17 years playing with the Yankees, these are a few of the things that I've learned. You've got to…

— Bernie Williams

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over,…

— Jackie Robinson

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up…

— Stan Musial

I think October baseball is a lot of fun to follow, being a biased guy that enjoys the sport from time to…

— Pat Connaughton

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

— Jerry Coleman

Now, 0 for 50 would be a historic achievement on any other team, but on the Cubs it is usually called September.

— Bernie Lincicome

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

— Roger Clemens

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

— John Milton

When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.

— Bob Gibson

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

— Lori Wilde

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

— Pete Rose

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

— Carlos Ruiz

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

— Matt Kemp

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

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

— Mark McGwire

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

— Alex Trebek

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a…

— Graig Nettles