Best 2491 quotes in «baseball quotes» category

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started.

The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.

The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

The National League is baseball to me.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.

The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

The one constant in life is baseball

The only good thing about playing in Cleveland is you don't have to make road trips there.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.

The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.

The only thing my father and I have in common is that our similarities are different.

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

The Padres are really swinging some hot hats tonight!

The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.

The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world champions of baseball.

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.

The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

There are a lot of shots in golf I can't hit, but I try to hit them anyway. The frustration is not there, because I'm still learning. But I really know how to do this. I'm not just hoping to get it where I want it... Let the other guys do it half-assed.