Quotes About Baseball

Aw, how could he Jorge Orta lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico.

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

There are only two seasons - winter and baseball.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965, my baseball card came out with no picture.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases.

Baseball held particular significance for father and son. Though football dominated West Texas sports culture, it was baseball that captured young George's imagination.

Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average.

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

I had never been to second base.

I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.

You always dream about being on a baseball card. It's kind of funny when you finally see it.

As I remember it, the bases were loaded.

Fast pitch softball is just as dangerous as baseball. The ball is bigger so you can see it better, but the size also makes for a bigger space to move out of its way.

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.