Favorite Baseball Quotes

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
-- Hank Aaron



You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the godd*** plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
-- Earl Weaver



During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
-- Mickey Mantle



Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.
-- Jim Murray



I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
-- Sandy Koufax



What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
-- Harry Caray

 

"...there is only one game at the heart of America and that is baseball, and the beverage to be found sloshing at the depths of our national soul and that is beer." Peter Richmond

 

Greg Maddux was once asked by Sports Illustrated if he could hit an Exit sign from 60'6" away. He said:

"Which letter?"

 

“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.” - Bob Feller

 

"Baseball is like church, many attend but few understand."

 

Flyballs don't take bad hops.

Can of corn.

Ducksnort.

You hang 'em, We bang 'em.

 

Quotes by Yogi Berra

All pitchers are liars or crybabies

Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical

Congratulations..I knew the record would stand until it was broken

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

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


And my favorites

You better cut the pizza into four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

Always go to other people's funerals otherwist they won't come to yours.

 

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit just to play baseball. - Pete Rose

 

I have a local favorite quote.....

Greenville Rose baseball coach Ronald Vincent was talking to a Rose pitcher a couple of years ago after the pitcher had walked a couple of batters on 8 straight balls. When he got to the mound he said: "Son, your problem is that you are having trouble mixing your pitches. How 'bout mixing some strikes in there with those balls". RV then turned and walked back to the dugout.

 

During a time when the fielders are a little quieter than normal "You sound like a bunch'a cadavers out there!"
-Greg Clewis

"You couldn't pull a grease up needle out of his (hind end) with a tractor"
-Gary Robinson edited for content!