Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 17)

To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

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

Bauer taught me how to dress, how to talk — and how to drink.

(1931 – 1995) American baseball player

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host

The A's leave after this game for Cleveland. It was only by a 13-12 vote that they decided to go.

Oakland A's announcer

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

(1929 – ) American baseball player who had a well-publicized bipolar disorder

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did, but it was Mrs. Koufax's.

professional baseball pitcher

Harmon Killebrew has enough power to hit home runs in any park – including Yellowstone.

American professional baseball player, manager & executive

You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

American baseball pitcher

“Hell, Lou, it took fifteen years to get you out of a game; sometimes I’m out in fifteen minutes.”

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

Some people have a chip on their shoulder; Billy has a whole lumberyard.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

I wish I could remember everything I told him.

American baseball pitcher

The highlight of my career?… in '67 with St. Louis, I walked with the bases loaded to drive in the winning run in an inter-squad game in spring training.

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

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

(1929 – ) American baseball player who had a well-publicized bipolar disorder

The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn’t allow visitors in the clubhouse.

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

I believed in drug testing a long time ago… all through the Sixties I tested everything.

American baseball pitcher

You don't hit with your face.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The only problem I really have in the outfield is with fly balls.

(1960 – ) Puerto Rican professional baseball player

If Lew could cook, I’d marry him.

baseball manager

I went through life as "a player to be named later.”

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host

The place was cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

professional baseball player