Baseball Quotes - Page 101

I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.

Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.

Baseball is a game-I just go out there and enjoy it.

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

I couldn't have done it without my players.

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.

What do you think, I was born at 60?

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

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.

All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.

Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.

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.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though - that's a different proposition.

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.