Baseball Quotes - Page 6

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

I've done all kinds of cool things as an actor - I've jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody’s daddy.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.