Quotes by Baseball Players - Page 2

Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.
Billy Sunday
I want you all to line up in alphabetical order according to your size.
Casey Stengel
The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
Billy Sunday
The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard.""Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"-Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure but knowing what to do with it is a business.
Tommy Henrich
Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.
Satchel Paige
The game isn't over until it's over.
Yogi Berra
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?
Jim Bouton
You can't think and hit at the same time.
Yogi Berra
To guess is no good, but to anticipate is GREAT.
Filipe Alou
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola
I want to thank everybody who made this day necessary.
Yogi Berra
Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.
Tug McGraw
I'll take any way to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy I'll go in as a batboy.
Phil Rizzuto
There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues but they never make it they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.
Cookie Lavagetto
To see, all one has to do is look. To hear, all one has to do is listen.
Ben Chapman
here’s a toast to Alan Turingborn in harsher, darker timeswho thought outside the containerand loved outside the linesand so the code-breaker was brokenand we’re sorryyes now the s-word has been spokenthe official conscience woken– very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted –and the story does suggesta part 2 to the Turing Test:1. can machines behave like humans?2. can we?
Matt Harvey
No, I don't go to that restaurant anymore. No body goes there. It's too crowded.
Yogi Berra
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett
If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
Ted Williams
I was playing it like Willie Wilson but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.
Clint Hurdle
Once upon a time,there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.
Dick Allen
One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best results not when you apply superhuman effort but when you let the game flow organically and allow yourself to be fully present. You'll often hear scouts say of a great prospect, "The game comes slow to him." It mean the prospect is skilled and poised enough to let the game unfold in its own time, paying no attention to the angst or urgency or doubt, funnelling all awareness to the athletic task at hand.
R.A. Dickey
I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really — like a beer that’s been in a brawl.
David Justice
Toots Shore's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.
Yogi Berra
Do What You Love and You Will Love What You Do!
Neiman Nix
I was young enough to be an optimist.
Mike Mussina
Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded
Yogi Berra
In baseball you don't know nothing.
Yogi Berra
Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
Satchel Paige
Get in front of the ball you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for young man.
John McGraw
(Airplanes) may kill you but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige
But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play--and don't play to bring their parents glory.
Yogi Berra
You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.
Joe Torre
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!
Babe Ruth
The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.
Jim Bouton
Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.
Bob Feller
All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."
Ted Williams
Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near.
Jim Bouton
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Vernon Law
I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.
Curt Flood
A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.
Reggie Jackson
You can't get rich sitting on the bench.
Phil Linz
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Leo Durocher
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
Ty Cobb
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
Good Morning!
Billy Hatcher
We made too many wrong mistakes.
Yogi Berra
Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige
When you're a professional you come back no matter what happened the day before.
Billy Martin
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Yogi Berra
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton
Listen, I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist, I've butt it as long as I've got a head, and I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.
Billy Sunday
There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happened.
Tommy Lasorda
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
Yogi Berra
He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that. . . every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.
Joe Garagiola
The future is much like the present only longer.
Dan Quisenberry