Baseball Quote by Tris Speaker

The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble.…

— Dizzy Dean

A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.

— Richie Ashburn

I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.

— Zack Greinke

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

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

— Jim Palmer

Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.

— Gerrit Cole

He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

— Sandy Koufax

If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.

— Vernon Wells

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the…

— Casey Stengel

I wish I was just a left-handed hitter. It's really tough having to keep both sides sharp, and that's one reason why you don't…

— Lance Berkman

I had my share of failures at the plate as a MLB player, but I was always pretty confident against left-handed pitching.

— Gabe Kapler

There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.

— Richard Linklater