Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 21)

The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow.

Venezuelan baseball player

Ozzie Smith just made a play that I have never seen before; and he’s done it more times than anyone else.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

If I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her up.

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

Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring; besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls. It’s more democratic.

(1955 – ) American actor, musician, producer & director

I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Some quiet guys are inwardly outgoing.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist

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

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I couldn't done it without my players.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati.

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

Ed, you're the second best umpire in the league… the other twenty-three are tied for first.

American baseball player

I walk into the clubhouse and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic; we have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol and by the seventh inning he had drunk it all.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

baseball manager

If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.

(1931 – ) American baseball player & manager

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball; I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

(1934 – ) American baseball player

When I was a kid, I wanted to play baseball and join the circus. With the Yankees, I've been able to do both.

American baseball player