Baseball Quotes - Page 73

I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.

You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.

If you play well on the field, everything will take care of itself.

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.

If you want to get off this team you have to take a number.

I was better at baseball, but I really loved football.

There is no chance of night baseball ever being popular in the bigger cities. People there are educated to see the best there is and will stand for only the best. High-class baseball cannot be played at night under artificial light.

Bench me or trade me.

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.

The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.

The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.

It's amazing what you can do in this game with a heart and a brain

If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.