Quotes About Baseball

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

I want to be known as a Christian baseball player and I'm still trying to grow into that. But in the end, I want to be more Christian than baseball player.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.

Those pinstripes, they make you do something.

Love it the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

In the mid-1970s, players did not fraternize before games; in fact, oftentimes they genuinely did not like each other or resented one another's success. It was before the modern big-money era of baseball when the players, each flush with cash and the accouterments of prosperity, began treating each other as coworkers and comrades in a billion-dollar enterprise.

He hit .200 with 14 homers in his career, but four of them were off Hall of Fame pitchers: Sandy Koufax (twice), Fergie Jenkins, and Gaylord Perry. "Every time I see Gaylord, he says, 'Here comes the worst day of my life,'" Uecker said

Every time I see Sandy Koufax, I apologize. I always thought I was going to keep him out of the Hall of Fame.

Actually, I had two career highlights: I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.

Joe Inglett He had a moth in his ear during a game. They had to shine a light in his ear and pick it out with a tweezer.

Lane said he was the worst scout in baseball history. So, we decided to put him in the booth.

A little while later, we had our first practice. The first one I ever went to, and they strapped the gear on me and put me behind the plate. My father said, "You're going to thank me some day…" Lo and behold, I was a catcher from that day forward.

We had a call go against us in Cleveland," Crawford said. "I think it was Shane Peterson, sliding into a base. It was a really close play, and we were deciding whether or not to challenge, and the super slo-mo replay didn't come in until really late. That was the only angle that showed that he was safe. We tried to pick up the phone, but it was too late. The next guy had already stepped into the box. We got screwed on that one.

Yes, I am," Cirillo said. "Are you going to the All-Star Game?" the fan asked. "Yes, I am," Cirillo said. "Then, what are you doing on a flight to Newark?" the fan asked.

Former Brewers catcher Jason Kendall referred to batting practice as a "war zone." Others have called it "controlled chaos," a "beehive," or a "sporting symphony." There is so much going on during the session that it's hard for people to understand the activity.

Midway through the 2015 season, Bob Uecker was standing behind the batting cage when someone hit a line drive off the L-screen in front of the pitcher. The ball caromed into the air and hit Uecker between the eyes before he knew what happened. He ended up missing the broadcast that night and spending the night in the hospital with concussion-like symptoms. "I'm always a little dizzy, but that was more than usual," Uecker joked.

One of baseball's more confusing traditions, at least in my eyes, is that the home team has batting practice first. That means that when the gates open, fans usually see the opposing team take batting practice. That has never made sense to me.

I remember it was a nativity type setting. An exit light shining down. There were three truck drivers there. One guy was carrying butter, one guy had frankfurters, and the other guy was a retired baseball scout who told my folks that I probably had a chance to play somewhere down the line.

He retired the side and struck out the final two batters—Champ Summers and Lou Whitaker—to end the game. Bob Uecker's radio call of the final out: "Good-bye, Detroit. Hello, New York" was an instant classic.

The Sausage Race Every ballpark in the big leagues has its unique traditions, but only Miller Park has the sausage race. In the sixth inning of every game, five young (and really fast) Brewers employees (or friends of employees) dress in sausage costumes and race around the warning track.

I just looked over and saw our wieners in a wad," then-Brewers manager Ned Yost said after the game.