Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 24)

Most one run games are lost, not won.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

You used to think if the score was 5-0, he'd hit a five-run home run.

professional baseball player

First triple I ever had.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

Is that the best game you ever pitched?

A woman will be elected president before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes.

(1953 – ) American baseball player

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. 

professional hockey player

We've got to learn to stay out of triple plays.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

professional baseball player

Good pitching always stops good hitting and vice versa.

American baseball player

Bauer taught me how to dress, how to talk — and how to drink.

(1931 – 1995) American baseball player

I refuse to call a 47-year-old white-haired man ’Sparky.’

baseball umpire

Well, there goes our 26-game hitting streak.

baseball manager

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

professional baseball player

The new Haitian baseball can’t weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

Orel Hershiser is the only Major League pitcher to have two consecutive pronouns in his surname.

American essayist

 I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4½ minutes – when they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street – a lot of singles, but no action.

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host

I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

He's about 3′1″… I tell him to get his nose off my kneecap.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager