Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 13)

 When I'm on the road, my greatest ambition is to get a standing boo.

professional baseball player

In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

It's a good thing Babe Ruth isn't still with the Yankees. If he was, George Steinbrenner would have him bat seventh and say he's overweight.

American baseball player

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game; if that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what’s left.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. 

professional hockey player

Best player ever? … I’d have to go with the immoral Babe Ruth.

professional baseball player

Every time I sign a ball, and there have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveseski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

American baseball player

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate.

American baseball pitcher

Third [base] ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Do they leave it there during games?

American baseball pitcher

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.

(1902 – 1971) American comedian & singer

Winning is better than the next worse thing.

American baseball pitcher

And it’s a long drive down the line to centerfield.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Rookie Wilson was candidate for Mookie of the Year.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I led the league in “Go get ‘em next time.”

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

Most one run games are lost, not won.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

(Leo) Durocher claims he was sacked forty times (by Larry MacPhail) in his five years as Dodger manager, but I was there and I can verify only twenty-seven.

American baseball executive

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager