Quotes About Baseball

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.

They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.

Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.

Tito Fuentes is safe at second with a triple.

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

Turner pulls into second with a sun-blown double.

Baseball is so associated with sex. "He's playing the field," "He scored," "He didn't get to first base." "I struck out." Why? "She wanted a diamond."

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

When I come back you can tell me about the baseball." "The Yankees cannot lose." "But I fear the Indians of Cleveland." "Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy. "If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy," he said aloud. "But since I am not crazy, I do not care. And the rich have radios to talk to them in their boats and to bring them the baseball

Dentuso je bio okrutan, vješt, snažan i pametan. Ali ja sam bio pametniji od njega. A možda i nisam. Možda sam bio samo bolje oboružan. - Nemoj sad razmišljati, stari - re?e starac. - Plovi samo dalje i ne daj se kad opet do?u! Ali moram razmišljati, pomisli. Ništa mi drugo ne preostaje. To, i bejzbol.

shag4 /?aÉ¡/ I. verb — [with obj.] 1. [Baseball] chase or catch (fly balls) for practice. • you run down to the field and hit a few baseballs and shag a few fly balls. – origin early 20th cent.: of unknown origin.

I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper?

Everything is repetition in baseball. When you get all out of whack and do something different, you feel weird.

I'm one of those people that develop late, so what if these are my peak years in baseball? I would never know unless I put myself out there, and if I fail, I fail.

My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.

Everyone goes through those stretches. Everyone you talk to in this game, old coaches, old teammates, old players, whatnot, they all have those, 'Oh, I was 0-for-25, I was 0-for-30 one time.' I just try to not to get it that far, get it to that point and take it one at-bat as a time.

In regards to core training, I try to incorporate the medicine ball whenever possible. As a baseball player, there is a lot of twisting and turning that I will do. Keeping my abs strong is as important as anything else.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

Nothing in baseball can bring me down to the level where I was growing up in Pine Bluff, crying and broke. This is fun for me. Whenever you see me slumping, nah, I don't get upset; I'm all right.