Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 19)

Once a pitcher loses his fastball, he has to go to the garbage.

baseball player

They wanted me to play third like Brooks (Robinson) so I did play like Brooks — Mel Brooks.

baseball player

I was so bad, I couldn’t have driven Miss Daisy home.

baseball player

I guess I’d better send my fingers to Cooperstown.

baseball player

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

Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.

American baseball player, manager & executive

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

Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Fernando Valenzuela is the pitcher whose name sounds like a mailing address in the Lower Andes.

American sportswriter

Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

Baseball is a game which consists of tapping a ball with a piece of wood, then running like a lunatic.

If you see the ball, hit it… that’s what it’s there for.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

My father looked at the check and then told the scout, 'Throw in another hundred and you can take the rest of the family.'

baseball player

If ever an error had ‘F’ written on it, that grounder did.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

His face looks like a closed fist.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.

American baseball player & commentator

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Most ball games are lost, not won.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I couldn't done it without my players.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist