Baseball Quotes - Page 42

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.

I'd find the fellow who lost it [million dollars], and, if he was poor, I'd return it.

It gets late early out there.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be like my older brother. That just kind of was a natural thing that I fell into.

I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

Ernie Banks was a great great player and when he no longer could play, he became a great ambassador for the game. He represented the game with the highest of class and dignity. Everybody loved Ernie Banks. He enjoyed baseball, life and people. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. We have truly lost a baseball giant.

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.