Quotes About Baseball

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

On a day I start, I have a turkey sandwich for lunch. I don't consider it a ritual, but I'm anxious on those days.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

I'm always just grinding and figuring out what adjustment I need to make and how to tweak my swing to where I want it to be for that game and that pitcher.

Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms.

People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

People say what we're doing is holding out when in reality the teams are trying to crush the draft market because they don't want to pay fair market value.

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!

We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.

John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didnt use it much. He didnt want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

Why do people want to know what I think? I like to play the game. I don't like to give opinions.

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.