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There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.
My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.
The last time Pena faced the Padres, the Dodgers scratched for a run to tie the game and then went on to win 4-0.
In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.
My hair was falling out so I got in the habit of wearing a hat. And I didn't like baseball caps so I got a beret.
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.
You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something.
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.
I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
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.
I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.
Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.
There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.
I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.
I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something.
Winning isn't as important as doing well individually. You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate.
It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.
In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life.
Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone`s shortlist of best baseball writers ever.
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!
Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.
Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.
Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.
You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.
If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.