Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 27)

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

Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring; besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls. It’s more democratic.

(1955 – ) American actor, musician, producer & director

I was offered a spot in an ad for neutering pets… not exactly what I had in mind.

American baseball pitcher

Most of his home runs were hit on artificial turf.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

It’s never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn’t.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not on theirs.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

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

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

American baseball player

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

professional baseball player

One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

American baseball player

For those of us who are baseball fans and agnostics, the [Baseball] Hall of Fame is as close to a religious experience as we may ever get.

American author

I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

American baseball player

Sooner or later, the lame, the halt, and the blind all seek refuge with us.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

You've got to swing that bat; only the mailman walks.

American baseball player

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