Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 9)

If anyone wants me tell them I'm being embalmed.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Pudge is so old, they didn’t have history class when he went to school.

professional baseball player & broadcaster

I’m throwing as hard as I ever did, but the ball is just not getting there as fast.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

Umpire's heaven is a place where he works third base every game; home is where the heartache is.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

(He) simply lost that sun-blown popup.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

(1922 – ) American baseball player & manager

There are only two seasons – winter and baseball.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

For those of us who are baseball fans and agnostics, the [Baseball] Hall of Fame is as close to a religious experience as we may ever get.

American author

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

Los Angeles Dodgers’ 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

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

If the NBA were on channel five and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel four, I’d watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.

college basketball coach

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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles; eighty percent of the people don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you're having trouble.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

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

The Mets achieved total incompetence in a single year, while the Browns worked industriously for almost a decade to gain equal proficiency.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

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 refuse to call a 47-year-old white-haired man ’Sparky.’

baseball umpire

I’ve got a face made for radio.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

Kid, don't be messing around with my money.

(1922 – 2007) American baseball player & manager