Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 19)

He can embarrass the batter on one pitch and the catcher on the next.

baseball player

Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner is a first-and-ten capitalist in a bunt-and-run world.

American sportswriter

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

They said I was such a great prospect that they were sending me to a winter league to sharpen up.; when I stepped off the plane, I was in Greenland.

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

Most ball games are lost, not won.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

If Lew could cook, I’d marry him.

baseball manager

I tell him ‘Attaway to hit, George.’

American baseball manager

Baseball is dull only to those with dull minds.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink; no team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

American sportswriter

I never tried to outsmart nobody; it was easier to outdummy them.

professional baseball player

I don't speak Chinese, but I figure if I try, I've got to be saying something.

(1962 – ) Canadian-American actor, comedian, author & radio personality

Owner of the A's, Charlie Finley: I noticed when you went out to the mound, you had grass stains on the seat of your pants. That's not a good example to set for your players.

Bauer calmly replied: Those weren't grass stains, Charlie… that was mistletoe.

(1922 – 2007) American baseball player & manager

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

baseball player

If the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried and a gumdrop would fall in his mouth.

(1906 – 1991) American baseball player, coach & manager

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankees win.

professional baseball player & announcer

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.

baseball player

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

My problem is I lose too many one-run games – 10-9, 8-7.

American baseball pitcher

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

professional baseball player