Baseball Quotes · Page 95

I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

— Stan Musial

Oh, I fooled around with baseball, but I never really took it serious.

— Gene Autry

They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.

— Harry Caray

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

— Phil Jackson

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

— Jose Canseco

Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.

— Tim Hudson

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

— Eli Roth

Being a Dodgers fan led to my first Air Force court-martial, but that's another story.

— George Carlin

It's rewarding riding into the sunset. What better way to go? My teammates carried me off the field - it doesn't get…

— David Ross

I helped my dad do landscaping from when I was 14, and then every summer when I'd come home for college, I'd…

— Chris Lane

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats…

— Tony La Russa

I feel that if I absolve myself and say it was the Astros' fault I was bad in Game 7, in the…

— Yu Darvish

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going…

— Leo Durocher

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated…

— Mike Pesca

Here I am, a baseball superstar, falling into the pits, having everybody write you off, and then having God say, 'I'm going…

— Darryl Strawberry

After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.

— Joe Torre

I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I…

— Bert Blyleven

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman,…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are…

— Bud Selig

It doesn't matter what the scoreboard says. I'm always having fun, talking to other guys. They even come to first base and…

— Albert Pujols

The way that I was taught to play baseball, and to me the way baseball has always been, is... Look, we play…

— Buster Posey

If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me…

— Bengie Molina

As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot…

— Billy Williams

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the…

— Jesse Jackson

I want to become the type of pitcher any one in the world can say is the world's best pitcher.

— Yu Darvish

The speed of the game in Triple-A, Double-A is not the same as in the Big Leagues.

— Alex Cora

Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better…

— Roy Halladay

“The best pitchers have a short-term memory and a bulletproof confidence”

— R.A. Dickey

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

— Rogers Hornsby

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

— Sammy Sosa

I believe that you're a hitter first and you're a slugger second type deal.

— J. D. Martinez

It's baseball. You never know what to expect. Every day is different.

— Xander Bogaerts

After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.

— Mickey Mantle

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a…

— Bill Buckner

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

— Rickey Henderson

You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.

— Carl Erskine

Dont let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game<3

— A Cinderella Story

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

— Robert Orben

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

— Rich Davis

The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be…

— Robin Williams