Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 4)

I don’t room with him [Babe Ruth]; I room with his suitcase.

professional baseball player

With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.

baseball player

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

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

(1953 – ) American baseball player

I knew when my career was over; in 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

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

You can't expect Mr. Ed to keep up with Secretariat.

baseball player

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

The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn’t even started.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

 The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey; the old ballplayer cared about the name on the front… the new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

professional baseball player

It just as easily could have gone the other way.

professional baseball player & manager

A lot of good ballgames on tomorrow, but we’re going to be right here with the Cubs and the Mets.

baseball broadcaster

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

baseball player

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

baseball umpire

When Sandy Koufax retired.

American baseball player

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

Do you know what I love most about baseball? … the pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt… and that’s just in the hot dogs.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

(Leo) Durocher claims he was sacked forty times (by Larry MacPhail) in his five years as Dodger manager, but I was there and I can verify only twenty-seven.

American baseball executive

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

(1931 – 1995) American baseball player

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer