Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 6)

An hour after the game, you want to go out and play them again.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach

Baseball's a very simple game. All you have to do is sit on your butt, spit tobacco, and nod at the stupid things your manager says.

American baseball pitcher

I didn’t see [Christy] Mathewson, but Oquendo said he had a good slider.

American baseball player

Arthur 'Dazzy' Vance could throw a cream puff through a battleship.

American baseball player

The Mets have gotten their leadoff hitter on base only once in this inning.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

What’s everyone blaming me for? … Blame Felix; I wouldn’t have hit into the double-plays if he hadn’t hit singles.

American baseball player, manager & executive

I’ve never seen a game like this; every game this year has been like this.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

There are younger Aztec ruins.

sportswriter & newspaper columnist

All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

American baseball player & manager

That was a maximization of a minimization of hits.

professional baseball player

They said I was such a great prospect that they were sending me to a winter league to sharpen up.; when I stepped off the plane, I was in Greenland.

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

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they’re running.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I can play anywhere; First, Third, Left field… anywhere but Philadelphia.

(1942 – ) American baseball player

Baseball is like church…. many attend, few understand.

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

The first time I ever came into a game there [Yankee Stadium], I got in the bullpen car and they told me to lock the doors.

American baseball pitcher

Statistics and records are baseball talk; they keep records like most times sliding into second base on a Tuesday.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I’m no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and 4,200 hits.

American baseball player

As I remember it, the bases were loaded.

professional baseball player

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player… but they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

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