Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 12)

If it comes down to taking care of my mother in her old age and taking care of my center fielder in his young age, I hope she understands.

Owner of the Seattle Mariners

It was strange. The only English words I saw were Sony and Mitsubishi.

American baseball player

I went to church the other day to pray for our pitchers… but there wasn't enough candles.

baseball manager

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

When I broke in, they didn’t have bats – we just grabbed the branch of a tree.

American baseball pitcher

It gets late out there early.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

One time, I got pulled over at four a.m.; I was fined seventy-five dollars for being intoxicated and four-hundred for being with the Phillies.

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

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

These days baseball is different… you come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.

American baseball player

A string of good alibis.

professional baseball manager

If I'd known I was going to pitch a no-hitter today, I would have gotten a haircut.

professional baseball player

On the road when you go downstairs for coffee in your underwear, they throw you out of the kitchen.

baseball player

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

American baseball pitcher

I understand, Moe, that you are in counter-intelligence, which, I assume, means you are against intelligence.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

If you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach

He's the only guy I know who can go 4 for 3.

American baseball player

For those of us who are baseball fans and agnostics, the [Baseball] Hall of Fame is as close to a religious experience as we may ever get.

American author

The way he’s swinging the bat, he won’t get a hit until the 20th century.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Slump, I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager