Baseball Quotes - Page 12

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

The game isn't over till it's over.

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.

I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.

I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination and technically hit a baseball.

What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.