Baseball Quotes
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Baseball Quotes & Sayings
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Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.
— Tommy Henrich
When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?
— Miguel Cabrera
Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.
— Rickey Henderson
The Big Red Machine was exactly that - a freaking machine.
— Tucker Elliot
Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.
— Daniel Okrent
If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.
— Jerry Coleman
Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.
— Jerry Coleman
I smile as I leave them, wondering what building my dad would try to save with his writing.Probably a baseball stadium. Or a Burger King.
— Stephanie Perkins
I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.
— Jose Canseco
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
— Bill Bryson
The thing I write will be the thing I write.
— Steve Shilstone
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
— Ken Harrelson
They ought to create a new league for that guy.
— Jack Harshman
My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.
— Jose Canseco
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
— Branch Rickey
I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.
— Jerry Ferrara
God, I just love baseball.
— Robert Redford
My favorite urban flower, the baseball box score
— Roger Angell
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
— Branch Rickey
A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
— Cass McCombs
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.
To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.
— Mark Teixeira
Friends. Just friends. Baseball... baseball...
— Sibylla Matilde
He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.
— Collette West
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
— Edward Abbey
Don't ever think $7,000 isn't a lot of money in baseball. I've had huge arguments over a lot less.
— Jim Bouton
THE BRITISH NEVER WATCH BASEBALL!
— John Irving
The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.
— Ron Luciano
That's just it. What if I can't protect you? I'll be outnumbered, outgunned. What if I can't get you out of there?
— Collette West
We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!
— Jerry Coleman
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
— Yogi Berra
Vampire in real life aren't like the ones in the movies. They weren't going to be playing baseball in a thunderstorm.
— Jacqueline Carey
That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair.
— Bucky Harris
Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.
— Mary McGrory
In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.
— George Carlin
It ain't nothing till I call it.
— Bill Klem
There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.
— Jimmy Fallon
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
— Robert Benchley
They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.
— Jerry Coleman
Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
— Jerry Coleman
But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out.
— Ernest Lawrence
To get the adrenaline going before the game for a big league baseball game was pretty special.
— Daniel Hudson
My job is baseball. That's it. After, I'll talk to my country. I'm happy to do that.
— Hee-seop Choi
I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.
— Giancarlo Stanton
Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.
— Paul Konerko
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.
— Leo Durocher
I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.
— Juliana Hatfield
Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
— Jimmy Connors
To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
— Willie Stargell
I've lied all my life. I'm just now learning how to tell the truth, and I'm not going to start playing games again, especially not with you.
— Collette West
Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.
— Richard M. Nixon
I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
— Yoenis Cespedes
Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.
— Philip K. Wrigley
It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.
— Jerry Coleman
I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
— Bill Terry
The ballgame is over ... in this inning.
— Jerry Coleman
You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
— Cal Ripken Jr.
Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!
— Jerry Coleman
Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
— Ernie Harwell
You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.
— Andy Pettitte
The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.
— Stan Musial
Baseball and malaria keep coming back.
— Gene Mauch
There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.
— Mickey Mantle
He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.
— Roger Clemens
I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.
— Calvin Pryor
If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it.
— Lance Berkman
I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.
— Herbert Hoover
That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.
— Michael Lewis
