Quotes About Baseball

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's like runs batted in.

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused on that. Then I went home and I was miserable. That was pretty much my routine every day.?

I've always been a streaky hitter. For the most part, when my home runs come, they come in bunches.

Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.

If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.

I've never seen anything like that before. Usually when home teams break up no-hit bids, the crowd cheers the hit and cheers the pitcher. I've never seen them boo before.

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.

That home run ties it up, 1-0.

The mark of a good hitter is someone who hits the ball hard, often. And if you run into a few home runs, that's fine.

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.