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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.
You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either.
You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.
Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.
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.
Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.
I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.
They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.
Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.
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 shortstop's head.
He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases.
I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.
If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.
Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.
If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.
I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.
I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?
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.
I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.
Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.
I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.
See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.
They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.
It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.
There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.
They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.