Quotes About Baseball

The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.

Television is fine," he continues, "but it can't give you the thrills and the fun ya have at the game, getting the sunshine and fresh air and being a real part of our national pastime. So let's all forget our worries and have fun at the ball game whenever we can get to one." Frawley concludes his spiel with a robust, "Whaddya say?" followed by an equally hearty, "Let's go!

You're on tenth base, I can't find you.

Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

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.

One of the things that stays behind in childhood is baseball infield chatter. "Hey batter, hey batter, batter . . . swing!" For instance, as an adult, I've never seen courtroom proceedings start with "Hey lawyer, hey lawyer, lawyer . . . sue!"

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the numbers say it all, and when the numbers don't say what they want them to, they massage them like Koreans on Eighth Avenue until they get a happy ending.

Ain't no such thing as communist baseball team!

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!

All the Padres need is a flyball in the air.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.