Baseball Quotes - Page 2

Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me. I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I'd rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out.

Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

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.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

When you win, nothing hurts.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.