Subject: Sports » Baseball

You used to think if the score was 5-0, he'd hit a five-run home run.

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

If anyone wants me tell them I'm being embalmed.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink; no team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

American sportswriter
Baseball Sports

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

baseball manager
Baseball Characteristics Sports

Tito Fuentes is safe at second with a triple.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

The only thing Earl [Weaver] knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.

(1942 – ) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

The series is already won, but I don’t know by which team.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

We've got to learn to stay out of triple plays.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

My problem is I lose too many one-run games – 10-9, 8-7.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

When I was a kid, I wanted to play baseball and join the circus. With the Yankees, I've been able to do both.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

 The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey; the old ballplayer cared about the name on the front… the new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

professional baseball player
Baseball Characteristics Sports

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ‘em.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
America Baseball People Sports

We got a lot of guys not doing what their bubble-gum card says they can do.

professional baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

American baseball player
Baseball Life Sports

The way he’s swinging the bat, he won’t get a hit until the 20th century.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

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
Baseball Sports

Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle – once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire
Baseball Sports

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

Now there’s three things you can do in a baseball game; you can win or you can lose or it can rain.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports