Favorite baseball quotes

“People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring"~Roger Hornsby

 

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.
- Dizzy Dean

 

Braves, One putt

I think I have one that anwers a lot of the threads we have been posting.

"Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up."
Bob Lemon

 

Some truth in that.

90% of short putts don't go in. - Yogi Berra

 

it ain't over til it's over.

 

Good point Plate dad.

 

This is perhaps one fo the funniest thing's I have ever heard in my life and what i'm about to say is kinda long so hang with me. It was my freshman year of college and the night before some guys were drinking. Go figure, some college students doing some drinking, just for the record, I wasn't one of them lol. So the next day at practice coach runs us some and then ask who was responsible. Now a couple weeks before this we had a no drinking policy implemented before the season to make sure we were focused on the upcoming year. So coach is just letting us have it and then he ask who drank last night and who has drank any alcohol since the policy. So about 40 of the 50 guys are on one side who have drank and the other ten who haven't. So our coach is going crazy and yelling and when he talked dip spit would come out and it wasn't on purpose either. Then he said one the funniest lines I have ever heard - "boys, we have gone from no tolernce to zero tolernce." We all started looking at each other and laughing because of what he said. It still cracks me up when I think about it.

 

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after the last game of the season:

"well you can put your baseballs in moth balls now".

 

Tshirt may be a bit hokie, but it says it all:

"BASEBALL IS LIFE, THE REST IS JUST DETAILS"

 

This story was related to me by a college player I now. Seems his team's second baseman was thrown out on a steal, close play that didn't go his way. For the next few innings the 2nd baseman is ragging on the base umpire about blowing the call. Finally, the umpire calls time in the middle of the inning, goes to the dugout and tells the Coach "If you don't shut him up, I'm going to eject one of your good players".

From the same guy, the opposing pitcher was throwing over to first apparently more than usual trying to hold a runner. From the dugout came "I've seen your sister move better on a rubber".

And then there is "Do it right every time" which fits well with "You never know who's watching".