Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 17)

Ed, you're the second best umpire in the league… the other twenty-three are tied for first.

American baseball player

I have an amazing ability to forget.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

He can embarrass the batter on one pitch and the catcher on the next.

baseball player

If anyone wants me tell them I'm being embalmed.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Problem with [John] Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

American baseball player

George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin.

American baseball manager

Gibson's the luckiest pitcher I've ever seen because he always picks the night to pitch when the other team doesn't score any runs.

American baseball player & commentator

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

The only reason we’re 7-0 is because we’ve won all seven of our games.

Baseball team manager

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

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

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

baseball player

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & 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

An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink; no team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

American sportswriter

Gehringer goes two for five on Opening Day and stays that way all season.

American baseball pitcher

A lot of the people who make these suggestions would have a hard time filling out the application forms to work at 7-Eleven.

baseball player

I got a big charge out of seeing Ted Williams hit. Once in a while they let me try to field some of them, which sort of dimmed my enthusiasm.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach

I guess I'll have to gain 60 pounds, start smoking a cigar and wear clothes that don't match.

American baseball player

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

American baseball player

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

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist