Top baseball Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Jim Bouton
If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
- Jim Bouton
Collection: Baseball
Image of Jim Bouton
The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.
- Jim Bouton
Collection: Baseball
Image of Jim Bouton
Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
- Jim Bouton
Collection: Baseball
Image of Sharon Olds
Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.
- Sharon Olds
Collection: Baseball
Image of Dave Winfield
Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.
- Dave Winfield
Collection: Baseball
Image of Dave Winfield
Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.
- Dave Winfield
Collection: Baseball
Image of Willie Stargell
Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.
- Willie Stargell
Collection: Baseball
Image of Pete Rose
If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.
- Pete Rose
Collection: Baseball
Image of Pete Rose
People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game.
- Pete Rose
Collection: Baseball
Image of Pete Rose
You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.
- Pete Rose
Collection: Baseball
Image of Humphrey Bogart
Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?
- Humphrey Bogart
Collection: Baseball
Image of Pat Williams
Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn the on-deck circle.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Baseball
Image of Dave Pelzer
In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing
- Dave Pelzer
Collection: Baseball
Image of Rafael Palmeiro
My dad was the force behind me early on. He was just infatuated with baseball. He was the one that basically taught me how to play the game. He gave a lot of his time working out with me, practicing and taking me to a lot of different games. It was hard work between both of us.
- Rafael Palmeiro
Collection: Baseball
Image of Carl Yastrzemski
When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.
- Carl Yastrzemski
Collection: Baseball
Image of Carl Yastrzemski
Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.
- Carl Yastrzemski
Collection: Baseball
Image of Carl Yastrzemski
I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.
- Carl Yastrzemski
Collection: Baseball
Image of Cal Ripken, Jr.
I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling.
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Collection: Baseball
Image of Cal Ripken, Jr.
Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Collection: Baseball
Image of Cal Ripken, Jr.
The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Collection: Baseball
Image of Cal Ripken, Jr.
So many good things have happened to me in the game of baseball. When I do allow myself a chance to think about it, it's almost like a storybook career. You feel so blessed to have been able to compete this long.
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Collection: Baseball
Image of Cal Ripken, Jr.
You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event ,and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Collection: Baseball
Image of Earl Weaver
I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.
- Earl Weaver
Collection: Baseball
Image of Andy Rooney
Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.
- Andy Rooney
Collection: Baseball
Image of Joe Queenan
Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands.
- Joe Queenan
Collection: Baseball
Image of Chris Pratt
I've done all kinds of cool things as an actor - I've jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody’s daddy.
- Chris Pratt
Collection: Baseball
Image of Chazz Palminteri
Doing voiceover, they bring you in, you're wearing jeans, you haven't shaved, you're wearing a baseball cap, and you go in, do it, make a lot of money and go home. It's fun. I enjoy doing it very much. So that's been really fun for me.
- Chazz Palminteri
Collection: Baseball
Image of Casey Stengel
The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.
- Casey Stengel
Collection: Baseball
Image of Casey Stengel
You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.
- Casey Stengel
Collection: Baseball
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Baseball
Image of Bill Veeck
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
- Bill Veeck
Collection: Baseball
Image of Bill Veeck
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
- Bill Veeck
Collection: Baseball
Image of Bill Veeck
Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.
- Bill Veeck
Collection: Baseball
Image of Bill Veeck
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
- Bill Veeck
Collection: Baseball
Image of George Brett
I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.
- George Brett
Collection: Baseball
Image of George Brett
If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to the park, because they aren't true baseball fans.
- George Brett
Collection: Baseball
Image of George Brett
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.
- George Brett
Collection: Baseball
Image of George Brett
He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.
- George Brett
Collection: Baseball
Image of Grantland Rice
Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.
- Grantland Rice
Collection: Baseball
Image of Denzel Washington
Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.
- Denzel Washington
Collection: Baseball
Image of Alex Rodriguez
I want to be known as Dominican-that's what I am, 100 percent ... I have a duty and responsibility to continue the legacy of Dominicans in baseball.
- Alex Rodriguez
Collection: Baseball
Image of Alex Rodriguez
Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?
- Alex Rodriguez
Collection: Baseball
Image of Satchel Paige
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
- Satchel Paige
Collection: Baseball
Image of Ichiro Suzuki
In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.
- Ichiro Suzuki
Collection: Baseball
Image of Ichiro Suzuki
I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf.
- Ichiro Suzuki
Collection: Baseball
Image of Ichiro Suzuki
I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.
- Ichiro Suzuki
Collection: Baseball
Image of Dylan O'Brien
I love baseball - Moneyball was my favorite book when I was 13.
- Dylan O'Brien
Collection: Baseball
Image of Jackie Robinson
I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected
- Jackie Robinson
Collection: Baseball
Image of Jackie Robinson
If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.
- Jackie Robinson
Collection: Baseball