Best 2491 quotes in «baseball quotes» category

Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

Waking up every day and coming to the ballpark and playing baseball ... that's a good feeling.

Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be solidly in the Yankees' corner... The efficiently triumphant Yankee maching is a great institution, but, as they say, who can fall in love with U.S. Steel?

Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already there.’” “I’m not running the bases.’” “Well, you could at least steal second.’” “Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you’ve gone and ruined it.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball.

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the Mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Montreal Expos to Washington. Because we believe in the future of Baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month.

We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.

We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.

We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.

We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.

We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.

We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up.' We are professionals, we can do that without anybody telling us. I'm OK with it, but we need to do it on our own.

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

We used to have an all-Black baseball team, all Black stars and when White folks took Jackie Robinson and brought him into the major league that was the beginning of the crushing of Black baseball teams and leagues.

We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.

We try to find chemistry; we don't do a lot of situational baseball.

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

What a great hitch to pit!

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.

What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.

What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.