Baseball Quotes - Page 25

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.

Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.

Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.

Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

Never let your dreams go away.

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

There is no defense against the base on balls.

Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

That space between the white lines - that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

I don't know how anyone can put on a uniform and not care about winning.