Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 22)

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

All the Padres need is a flyball in the air.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

(1922 – ) American baseball player & manager

Nutrition makes me puke.

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

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

American baseball pitcher

That was Benes’ fifth strikeout on the day; he came in with 94, so now he has 104 strikeouts on the year.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Well, I guess I was just in the right place at the right time.

Dominican baseball player

He slides into second with a stand up double.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Owner of the A's, Charlie Finley: I noticed when you went out to the mound, you had grass stains on the seat of your pants. That's not a good example to set for your players.

Bauer calmly replied: Those weren't grass stains, Charlie… that was mistletoe.

(1922 – 2007) American baseball player & manager

Larry Lintz steals second standing up… he slid, but he didn’t have to.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Enos Cabell started here with the Astros… and before that he was with the Orioles.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

It ain’t over ’til it’s over.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

If you act like you know what you’re doing, you can do anything you want… except neurosurgery.

professional baseball player

When I asked the baseball writers why they haven't elected me to the Hall of Fame, they told me they thought I was still playing.

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

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit.

(1954 – ) American actress & comedian

Hey, Lou, it took you 15 years to get out of the game. Sometimes I’m out in 15 minutes.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player