Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 12)

I don’t room with him [Babe Ruth]; I room with his suitcase.

professional baseball player

Baseball, it is said, is only a game… true… and the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor

In the hunt to buy the San Francisco Giants was George Shinn, owner of the Charlotte Harlots.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist

If Lew could cook, I’d marry him.

baseball manager

I pitch like my hair’s on fire.

baseball player

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

You have to give Pete credit for what he's accomplished; he never went to college and the only book he ever read was The Pete Rose Story.

Ex-wife of Pete Rose

Slumps are like a soft bed; they're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

(1947 – ) professional baseball player

Nobody knows this [yet], but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I don’t think we’re the oldest battery, but we’re certainly the ugliest.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Career highlights?… I had two; I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

Don’t park in the spaces marked, “Reserved for Umpires.”

professional baseball pitcher

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Good pitching always stops good hitting and vice versa.

American baseball player

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

For the Washington Senators, the worst time of the year is the baseball season.

(1927 – ) American author & baseball writer

He’s throwing grounders.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

 I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4½ minutes – when they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

A stadium with the lights out.

American baseball pitcher