Baseball Quote by Bob Costas Download Open image “Mickey Mantle was baseball.” — Bob Costas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baseball Mickey Mickey Mantle
On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived. — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many great friends,… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a… — Mel Allen Copy Share Image
Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never… — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that? — Mel Allen Copy Share Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
If Vin Scully calling a game is just as good in 2013 as he was in 1963, that's the way a game should sound.… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they'd ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that even those… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
You have to be simultaneously well-prepared and spontaneous. You don't really know for sure what percentage of the preparation you are going to use,… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again. — Ernie Banks Copy Share Image
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some… — Mookie Betts Copy Share Image
I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy… — Harry Caray Copy Share Image
Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“It took only three years for Jonathan Papelbon to surpass Bill Campbell, Lee Smith, Tom Gordon, Sparky Lyle, Derek Lowe, Jeff Reardon, Ellis Kinder,… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement… — Gary Carter Copy Share Image
You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball… — Alex Bregman Copy Share Image
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image