Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 15)

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.

American baseball manager

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

Walk him and face the next guy.

American baseball player

Trying to hit him is like trying to eat Jell-O® with chopsticks.

baseball player

If the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried and a gumdrop would fall in his mouth.

(1906 – 1991) American baseball player, coach & manager

Now there’s three things you can do in a baseball game; you can win or you can lose or it can rain.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

If (Pete) Rose’s streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around the ball park that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

baseball player

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

The final score after eight innings is Giants 3, Padres 2.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I’m going to Radio Shack to buy one of those headsets like the broadcasters use… it seems as soon as you put them on, you get 100 times smarter.

American baseball manager

If the NBA were on channel five and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel four, I’d watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.

college basketball coach

There is one word in baseball that says it all, and that word is, ‘You never know.’

professional baseball player

Haven't they suffered enough?

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin.

American baseball manager

If he'd just tip he cap once, he could be elected mayor of Boston in five minutes.

baseball player, coach & manager

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.

American baseball player & commentator

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

American baseball pitcher

I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer