Quotes About Baseball

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

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

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.