Quotes About Baseball

I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.

Lee May's about the same age as me; he's got about the same stats. So how come he's making about one-eighty, two hundred thousand, and I'm the best damn paid player in the game? I'll tell you why: Because I put the meat in the seats!

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

At 6:45 on that cloudy and rapidly darkening evening, Lockington drove north on Clark Street. Wrigley Field loomed on his right and he stared glumly at the gaunt floodlight towers that were being erected on the grandstand roofs, far from operational now, but they'd be functioning in August. Night baseball in Wrigley Field—a sacrilege of unthinkable proportions, like a dice game smack dab in the middle of Vatican Square.

said Chericola got a ball club that couldn't whip the Little Sisters of the Poor. I said if the entire town turned out for every game it couldn't support a hopscotch team. I said you're on some kind of religious bender and I'm stumbling around like a goddam zombie wondering what's going on.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

had been parishioners at St. Francis Mission longer than he had been here. He had known Ned since he was a kid, brown face and big teeth, playing first base on the Eagles baseball team. Ned had moved to Jackson Hole for a while, but then he'd come home. He'd stopped by the mission twice, something on his mind each time, Father

He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.

When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.

Spring Training is a fun time for me.