Quotes About Baseball

All it takes to play baseball is a strong arm, good speed, and the coordination to hit the ball. That's it.

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

Spin rate itself doesn't make a pitch harder to hit. It just makes it further from what the hitters are used to seeing. It takes a pitch further away from average.

We have free agents getting signed based on having a higher spin rate than another guy. If I can put pine tar on my hand and increase my spin rate 200 RPM and then get a job over another guy who isn't breaking the rules, how is that fair?

When you're spinning a two-seam, getting on the side of the ball to get more run or sink can be good, but it can really be detrimental to your four-seam.

There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.

Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.

I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Reds. I would say I go Cubs usually. That's sort of where I grew up. My older brother was a huge Reds fan.

I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.

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.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

The recoil was immense, as though the weapon had blown up in his hand. The middle third of the baseball bat turned into a column of burning sawdust accelerating in all directions like a bursting star.

He was a tiny guy, deeply embedded in a leather chair, like a mouse in a baseball mitt.

Think of a baseball card, which carries a picture, some text, and some numerical data. A baseball hypercard could contain a highlight film of the player in action, shown in perfect high-def television; a complete biography, read by the player himself, in stereo digital sound; and a complete statistical database along with specialized software to help you look up the numbers you want.

I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter,' he told the Wall Street Journal. 'But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

How're the Broncos doing? Like a bunch of carrots. Is that bad? Can carrots play baseball? I guess not. Then you have your answer.

For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.

I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

As a hitter, I think if we wanted to change something, we should scoot the mound back. But that's never gonna happen.