Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 24)

Baseball, it is said, is only a game… true… and the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

American baseball player

Baseball players are smarter than [American] football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the pitch?

American baseball pitcher

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

It’s got lots of installation.

professional baseball player

You won't find a single four-letter word in there… I don't go for that bullshit.

(1918 – ) American baseball pitcher

Think?… how the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I occasionally get birthday cards from fans, but it's often the same message… they hope it's my last.

American baseball umpire

If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.

(1942 – ) American baseball player

I'm really not a Facebook or Twitter guy; I'm a prime-rib-and-baked-potato guy.

American baseball player & manager

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

Today, Pittsburgh beat the Pirates, 6 to 6!

American sportscaster

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

That’s the fourth extra base hit for the Padres – two doubles and a triple.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

The way he’s swinging the bat, he won’t get a hit until the 20th century.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Overwhelming underdogs.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

A slump starts in your head and winds up in your stomach.

American baseball player

There's a deep fly ball… Winfield goes back, back… his head hits the wall… it's rolling towards second base.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year; they don’t realize that most of us only make $500,000.00.

professional baseball player