Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 4)

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

(1931 – ) American baseball player & manager

We are in such a slump that even the ones that aren’t drinkin’ aren’t hittin’.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

All of his saves have come during relief appearances.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Managing a baseball team is like trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

American baseball player

We got a lot of guys not doing what their bubble-gum card says they can do.

professional baseball player & manager

You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game and if that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The Houston Astros play in a vast indoor stadium known as the Astrodome, but the problem is they field a half-vast team.

American baseball player

I don’t room with him [Babe Ruth]; I room with his suitcase.

professional baseball player

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

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

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

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not on theirs.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

I’d like to help you, but you don’t drink.

professional baseball player & manager

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

American baseball player

That was a maximization of a minimization of hits.

professional baseball player