Baseball Quotes - Page 38

I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.

I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.

A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.

My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

Different people, different backgrounds, different ideals... We walk in different doors at the beginning of the day, and we walk out of different doors at the end of the day. But when it is time to go out on that field, we all go through the same door.

There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet.

I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.

Today I am the greatest of all time.

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.