Baseball Quotes - Page 16

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

Fenway is the essence of baseball

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.

Bill Gates has 90 billion dollars ... If I had 90 billion dollars, I wouldn't have it for long because I would just dream of all the crazy stuff I could do with it. This guy, 90 billion dollars. He could buy every baseball team and make them all wear dresses and still have 88 billion dollars.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.

Your life is a product of your thoughts, what you think about all day becomes the basis of your life.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

I loved throwing a baseball. It is so important to find something in life you feel crazy about. Because you are so passionate you naturally practice. The hard work that it takes to do something well will come easily.

Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

So many good things have happened to me in the game of baseball. When I do allow myself a chance to think about it, it's almost like a storybook career. You feel so blessed to have been able to compete this long.