Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 5)

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

Every time I sign a ball, and there have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveseski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

American baseball player

Many fans look upon an umpire as a necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

American baseball pitcher

A string of good alibis.

professional baseball manager

I found a delivery in my flaw.

(1953 – 1998) baseball player

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

professional baseball player

Enos Cabell started here with the Astros… and before that he was with the Orioles.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

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

When they smile, blood drips off their teeth.

(1938 – ) American businessman & baseball team owner

The day I got a hit off Sandy Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

When Lew was a twenty game winner for the Milwaukee Braves, people needed three columns for his pitching record: won, lost and relative humidity.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

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

baseball manager

I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

(1947 – ) professional baseball player

Willie Mays' glove is where triples go to die.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

Not intentionally, but I sweat easily.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

American baseball pitcher

First triple I ever had.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

There’s someone warming up in the bullpen, but he’s obscured by his number.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer