Quotes About Baseball

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.

I've seen few things more depressing than the end-of-season Giants-Padres series in 2001 in which Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer of the year while a .227-hitting, rapidly fossilizing Rickey Henderson staggered like a delirious marathoner toward 3,000 hits.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

There's a human element here you start to lose when you start rattling off the best mathematical equation to get the out.

I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.

Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige - earlier than when he was called up - Oscar Charleston and Josh Gibson. You see what kind of talent we had, and guys in the majors knew it too.

I knew Dave Raymond, who was the original Phillie Phanatic.

I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used to catching everything on the sandlots. But they hit the ball a lot harder in the major leagues and I just couldn't reach the ball this time.

I don't like to guess. Just react. Some guys are guess hitters. I just could never do it. If you guess and guess wrong, you have no shot of hitting anything else.

My best pitch is my fastball. It's probably the most difficult pitch to hit. In my case, batters have very little reaction time.

If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

I wasn't ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn't know my way around.

I don't know that I've ever looked at baseball like a purely casual fan. That's just realistic when you grow up with it putting food on your table, and with it taking your dad out of town.

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

It's your glove, your baseball glove. It's got a soul, a memory all its own, and a future that never fades because it has never let go of the grasp the past has on you and so many others.

Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.

The Phillies liked the work I had done with the Cubs, and really wanted me there. They were on the phone as soon as my contract was up in Chicago, and it was just a great feeling to be wanted, to be appreciated for the work you do.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

My father played baseball. That's what I know to do. That's my gift. God has given me the greatest gift. And that's what I love to do.

I interviewed quite a few times and finally got a job with the Nationals. And I greatly appreciate it.

You know you're going to have 162 games. You're going to have six months to play this game and playing every day is going to be a grind.

My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.

Growing up my favorite coach was Billy Martin.