Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 2)

If it weren’t for baseball, many kids wouldn’t know what a millionaire looked like.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Bob Gibson was so mean he would knock you down and then meet you at home plate to see if you wanted to make something of it.

(1942 – ) American baseball player

Wait until Tommy (Lasorda) meets the Lord and finds out that He's wearing pinstripes.

American baseball pitcher

I went to church the other day to pray for our pitchers… but there wasn't enough candles.

baseball manager

Third [base] ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I believe in rules… sure I do; if there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?

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

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

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 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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.

American baseball pitcher

Sure, it's nice to win; but there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose.

professional baseball player

Well, I see in the game in Minnesota that Terry Felton has relieved himself on the mound in the second inning.

sportscaster & former professional baseball player

As I remember it, the bases were loaded.

professional baseball player

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

You don’t realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

(1931 – 1995) American baseball player

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

Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close a man has ever come to perfection.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

I don’t think we’re the oldest battery, but we’re certainly the ugliest.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager