Ball player Quote by Bradley Whitford

Scolari is just an incredible guy off the pitch.

— Hulk

(Mike) Schmitty provided what the relief pitchers need most, home runs and great defense. He's the best third baseman that I ever played with,…

— Steve Carlton

[ Chadwick Boseman] was not a baseball player. He spent, I don't know, countless hours, many months, working two sessions a day with professional…

— Harrison Ford

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved…

— Thomas Boswell

When I look at someone like Andrew Symonds, I see a player who has done phenomenally well with the bat, as his record shows.…

— Garfield Sobers

I told him I wasn't tired. He told me, no, but the outfielders sure are.

— Jim Kern

I'm in limbo. The baseball people are like, 'Oh, he's basketball athletic.' The basketball people are like, 'Well, he plays baseball, so he's probably…

— Pat Connaughton

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

— John Updike

Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become.

— Dick Stuart

I'm glad I don't have to face that guy (Don Mattingly) every day. He has that look that few hitters have. I don't know…

— Dwight Gooden

This day and age, you look at baseball as a whole, and not just the pitchers' side of it. You have the weight programs,…

— Matt Harvey

The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes…

— George V. Higgins