Baseball Quotes - Page 24

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.

Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.

I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.

I was being thrown to the wolves. Even though I did something great, nobody wanted to be a part of it. I was so isolated. I couldn't share it. For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There's the next young guy coming up that's always better than you. So, for me, it's just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.

Feeling is to lose a major league game.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.

Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."