Baseball Quotes - Page 13

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

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.

Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.

He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim -- but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.