Baseball Quotes - Page 48

I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

It ain't nothing till I call it.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been a very strong, dominant position. And I felt that if I did my work as I've done since I was, you know, a rookie back in Seattle, I didn't have a problem competing at any level. So, no.

I'm just worried about winning baseball. I'm only worried about what I can do to help the team win. It's about improving in every facet of the game. I think that's everyone's goals. Whatever we can do to help the team win is what we'll do. I think Andy has done a great job of coming in and helping our offense. AD is getting those pitchers ready. Coach Mainieri is going to coach up some wins this year. We are very excited and working on every facet of the game.

Baseball is a man maker.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.