Baseball Quotes - Page 49

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

It's fun; baseball's fun.

Nobody did nothin' to nobody.

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.

In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.

The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees from the arrangement we have potentially.

These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that. Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They’d be telling our soldiers: ‘That’s enough. You’ve fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!’