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Any umpire who lasts five years in the minor leagues deserves to be immortalized; any umpire who lasts ten or more years in the minors deserves to be institutionalized.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

There’ll be a man on the moon before he (Gaylord Perry) hits a home run.

(1922 – ) American baseball player & manager

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

(1947 – ) professional baseball player

I found a delivery in my flaw.

(1953 – 1998) baseball player

He hits from both sides of the plate; he’s amphibious.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow.

Venezuelan baseball player

You can't expect Mr. Ed to keep up with Secretariat.

baseball player

I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars; that bothered my dad at the time because he didn’t have that kind of dough… but he eventually scraped it up.

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

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats; after all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Arthur 'Dazzy' Vance could throw a cream puff through a battleship.

American baseball player

If you are going to have a fight with a visiting club, be sure to insult them the day they come to town, and not the last day of the series. It pays off better.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

Trying to throw a fastball by Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun by a rooster.

(1929 – ) American baseball player

We have deep depth.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

Son, nobody is half as good as Mickey Mantle.

baseball player

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

professional baseball player

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and the other foot in a bucket of ice; according to the percentage people, you should be about perfectly comfortable.

baseball manager

When Neil Armstong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object; I knew immediately what it was… that was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

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