Subject: Sports » Baseball

When we played, World Series checks meant something; now all they do is screw up your taxes.

American baseball pitcher & announcer

If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

American baseball pitcher

A lot of things run through your head when you’re going in to relieve in a tight spot… one of them was, “Should I spike myself?”

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.

American baseball player & commentator

If you hit Polonia 100 fly balls, you could make a movie out of it — Catch 22.

baseball player

The last time I saw anything like this I was playing for Tastee Freeze in the Little League.

professional baseball pitcher

As I remember it, the bases were loaded.

professional baseball player

Tommy John is so old, he uses Absorbine Senior.

(1952 – ) American sportscaster

It’s nice to have a guy that young come along; we usually go out and find somebody who’s 47.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

I had some bad days in the field… but I didn’t take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way.

professional baseball player & manager

If I knew he was gonna throw a no-hitter, I would have thrown one too.

professional baseball player

Play him, fine him, and play him again.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

What makes him unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.

American baseball manager

From the way Denny’s shaking his head, he’s either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Hell, if KY jelly went off the market, the whole California Angels pitching staff would be out of baseball.

American baseball pitcher

You don't hit with your face.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team; they got him from Philadelphia.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Gibson's the luckiest pitcher I've ever seen because he always picks the night to pitch when the other team doesn't score any runs.

American baseball player & commentator

Defensively the Red Sox are a lot like Stonehenge. They are old, they don't move, and no one is certain why they are positioned the way they are.

American sportswriter

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager