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Famous Baseball Quotes
- "Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa."- Casey Stengel
- "Cool Papa Bell hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his butt sliding into second."- Satchel Paige
- "Cool Papa Bell was so fast he could get out of bed, turn out the lights across the room and be back in bed under the covers before the lights went out." - Josh Gibson
- "Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane."- Casey Stengel
- "You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." -Jim Bouton
- "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." -Dave Barry
- "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."-Rogers Hornsby
- "Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." -Ted Williams
- "A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz." -Humphrey Bogart
- "Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror." -George Carlin
- "I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." -Rogers Hornsby
- "Strikeouts are boring - besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic." -Crash Davis: from the movie Bull Durham
- "Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" -Jim Bouton
- "Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster." -Joe Addock
- "You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain." -Leo Durocher
- "You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the gosh darn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -Earl Weaver
- "Sandy Koufax's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound." -Jim Murray
- "I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out." -George Foster
- "The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love." -Bryant Gumbel
- "I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance." -Susan Surandon from movie Bull Durham
- "Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball." -Woodie Held
- "Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona." -George F. Will
- "There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work." -Charlie Lau
- "The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up." -Bob Uecker
- "Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything." -Toby Harrah
- "If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball." -Sam Rutigliano
- "Any time you think you have the game conquered the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose." -Mike Schmidt
- "I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes." - Phil Rizzuto
- "Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand." -Wes Westrum
- "All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything." - Thomas Boswell
- "If it comes down to taking care of my mother in her old age and taking care of my centerfielder in his young age, I hope she understands." -Jeff Smulyan
- "I watch a lot of baseball on the radio." -Gerald Ford
- "Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder
- "Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater achievement." -Bob Uecker
- "You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. No, we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball." - Albert Einstein
- "Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run." -Branch Rickey
- "I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player." - John Kruk
- "It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."- Hank Aaron
- "Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you." -Satchel Paige
- "I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball." - Pete Rose
- "I don't put any foreign substances on the baseball. Everything I use is from the good old U.S.A." - George Frazier(former Hillcrest player class of '72)
- "All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill." - Babe Ruth
- "If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry Mom, but nobody beats me." -Leo Durocher
- "He could speak in eight languages, but he couldn't hit in any of them." -Ted Lyons, on Moe Berg
- "I got a kid, Greg Goosen, he's nineteen years old and in ten years he's got a chance to be twenty-nine." - Casey Stengel
- "If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out." - George Brett
- "I'm beginning to see Brooks Robinson in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first." - Sparky Anderson
- "That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much." - Joquin Andujar
- "There's one word that describes baseball -- 'You never know.'" - Joquin Andujar
- "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." -Grantland Rice
- "Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned." - Gene Autry
- "It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." -Nolan Ryan
- "About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure." - Tommy Lasorda
- “When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.” -Tommy Lasorda
- “I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.” -Tommy Lasorda
- “The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.” -Gaylord Perry
- “There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.” - Casey Stengel
- “Baseball is a game of inches.” - Branch Rickey
- "I've had a pretty good success facing Stan Musial by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third base." - Carl Erskine
- "Fans don't boo nobodies." - Reggie Jackson
Quotes by Yogi Berra.
- "You can observe a lot by watching."
- "Baseball is ninety percent mental, the other half is physical."
- "It's deja`vu all over again!"
- "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
- "If you come to a fork in the road, take it."
- "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there."
- "Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."
- "It gets late early out there."
- When asked if the fans that ran naked on the field were men or women- "I don't know. They had bags over their heads."
- "So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face."
- "The game ain't over 'til it's over."
- "You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."
- "We made too many wrong mistakes."
"Shannonism" Quotes by Cardinals Radio broadcaster Mike Shannon while on air...
• "Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch."
• "This big standing-room only crowd is settling into their seats."
• "It's raining like a Chinese fire drill!"
• (Referring to Bernard Gilkey):
"He was originally born in University City."
"He's faster than a chicken being chased by Ronald McDonald!"
• (Referring to Mike Schmidt):
"the longtime, and soon-to-be, Hall-of-Famer."
• (Referring to Hideo Nomo):
"He's the biggest thing to hit Japan since they dropped the bomb on Nagashima!"
• "That foul tip bounced up and caught him right in the groins...and that'll really clear your eyes out."
• "A hit up the middle right now would be like a nice ham sandwich and a cold, frosty one."
• (Broadcasting from New York under a full moon):
"I wish you folks back in St. Louis could see this moon."
• (On the day before Easter):
"I just want to tell everyone 'Happy Easter and Happy Hanukkah.'"
• "Well, he did everything right to get ready for the throw, but if ya ain't got the hose, the water just won't come out."
• "Our next homestand follows this road trip."
• (Referring to a home run by Ted Simmons):
"and that's the bread on Simmons' butter."
• "The right-hander is throwing up (instead of 'up, throwing') in the bullpen."
• "I've heard it said that if you know English, Spanish, Italian, and I think it's French, you can go just about anywhere in this world...except China where they have all those derelicts."-
After a pause, Joe BucK suggested that Mike has meant to say "dialects." Mike responded, "Yeah, dialects! That's what I mean...but they've got a lot of derelicts too!"
• "He ran to second faster than a cat in Chinatown."
• "I wouldn't have see it if I hadn't believed it."
• "Don't bite off your head to spite your nose."
• Joe: "Mike, the Cardinals would like to welcome a group of 19 French foreign exchange students in Section 382."
Mike: "Where're they from, Joe?"
Joe: "Uhh, France, I think."
• "Some of those guys look like the picture was taken while they were seeing their first UFO."
After several seconds of laughter, Joe added, "As opposed to their second or third."
• "The wind switched 360 degrees."
• "Boy, a cold, frosty Budweiser would be great about now"...long pause...then an "ahhh"
• Mike's classic: "Ol' Abner Doubleday has done it again."
• "It's raining so hard I thought it was going to stop."
• "The crowd's on their feet for the Canadian Star Bangled Banner."
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