Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 16)

Trying to throw a fastball by Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun by a rooster.

(1929 – ) American baseball player

It’s nice to have a guy that young come along; we usually go out and find somebody who’s 47.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

The only thing Earl [Weaver] knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

American baseball pitcher

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

American baseball pitcher

The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.

Dutch-born American baseball pitcher

We had a very scientific system of bringing in relief pitchers. We used the first one who answered the phone.

American baseball pitcher & pitching coach

I never did say that you can’t be a nice guy and win; I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her.

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

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

(1929 – ) American baseball player who had a well-publicized bipolar disorder

Arthur 'Dazzy' Vance could throw a cream puff through a battleship.

American baseball player

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

What’s everyone blaming me for? … Blame Felix; I wouldn’t have hit into the double-plays if he hadn’t hit singles.

American baseball player, manager & executive

Look at him and you'd think he's 16… talk to him and you think he's 26; talk baseball with him, and you'd think he's 36.

(1881 – 1965) American Major League Baseball executive

The last time I saw anything like this I was playing for Tastee Freeze in the Little League.

professional baseball pitcher

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I'm really not a Facebook or Twitter guy; I'm a prime-rib-and-baked-potato guy.

American baseball player & manager

A slump starts in your head and winds up in your stomach.

American baseball player

Do they leave it there during games?

American baseball pitcher

Oh, hell, if you win twenty games they want you to do it every year.

professional baseball player

I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb… it took me only a few days to correct that impression.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I lost it in the sun!

professional baseball player