Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 22)

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats; after all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

(Leo) Durocher claims he was sacked forty times (by Larry MacPhail) in his five years as Dodger manager, but I was there and I can verify only twenty-seven.

American baseball executive

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

There is one word in baseball that says it all, and that word is, ‘You never know.’

professional baseball player

The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

American writer

The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street – a lot of singles, but no action.

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host

If you know how to cheat, start now

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

What makes him unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.

American baseball manager

I wouldn’t give him a high fastball or a fast highball.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

I’m not an athlete; I’m a professional baseball player.

professional baseball player

Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

On the road when you go downstairs for coffee in your underwear, they throw you out of the kitchen.

baseball player

When Sandy Koufax retired.

American baseball player

Throw strikes – home plate don't move.

American baseball player

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I never knew anybody who said they liked doubleheaders except Ernie Banks, and I think he was lying.

professional baseball player & manager

One time, I got pulled over at four a.m.; I was fined seventy-five dollars for being intoxicated and four-hundred for being with the Phillies.

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

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.

(1902 – 1971) American comedian & singer

Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is… well, an umpire.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

I’ll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I’m glad I don’t play anymore; I could never learn all of those handshakes.

professional baseball player & announcer