Backward Quote by Lori Wilde

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

— Charlie Gehringer

I learn things in a backward way. I learn all those limitations, and slowly my brain soaks them up, and if things go right,…

— Bob Odenkirk

“Things go backward. And then, one day, whatever it is we had, it’s gone. It won’t come back. We both know it. Whatever it…

— Charles Yu

The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't…

— Haruki Murakami

I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.

— Al McGuire

Too bad integration didn't come sooner, because there were so many ballplayers that could have made the major leagues. That's why, you look back,…

— Hank Aaron

There are so few Jewish ballplayers, so you want to be a positive role model and provide an example that the Jewish community can…

— Gabe Kapler

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

— Rex Stout

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

— Earl Weaver

The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's…

— Tony Oliva

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

— Babe Ruth

“If we can’t be ballplayers together, maybe I can start bein’ a Buddhist.”

— David James Duncan

Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their…

— Thomas Boswell

“On the surface, there is something peculiar about turning a portion of one's happiness over to a collection of ballplayers, and perhaps more peculiar…

— Tom Swift

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

— Mickey Gilley