Quotes About Baseball

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!

Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Most one-run games are lost, not won.

Worrying about things you can't control is a waste both on the baseball field and in life.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.