Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 18)

It couldn't have happened to a greater guy… well, yes, it could have happened to me.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

When I looked at the third base coach for a sign, he turned his back on me.

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

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

Baseball players are smarter than [American] football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the pitch?

American baseball pitcher

I occasionally get birthday cards from fans, but it's often the same message… they hope it's my last.

American baseball umpire

Enos Cabell started here with the Astros… and before that he was with the Orioles.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Not intentionally, but I sweat easily.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

The team has come along slow but fast.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

He can run anytime he wants; I’m giving him the red light.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

professional baseball player & manager

If he'd just tip he cap once, he could be elected mayor of Boston in five minutes.

baseball player, coach & manager

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

professional baseball player

Jay Bell is 0-for-6 in this series with 10 homers and 52 RBIs.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

He's the only guy I know who can go 4 for 3.

American baseball player

Girls used to come up to me and say, “My sister loves you.” Now they say, “My mother loves you.”

baseball player

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around the ball park that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs.  You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them.  Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve.  No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

American baseball player

Brooks [Robinson] never asked anyone to name a candy bar after him; in Baltimore, people named their children after him.

sports writer

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

(1929 – ) American baseball player

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

American baseball pitcher

I'm happy for him [Gil Hodges]; that is, if you think becoming a big league manager is a good thing to have happen to you.

American baseball manager