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I’m too lazy to work and too scared to steal.

professional baseball player
Baseball Characteristics Sports Work

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Alcohol Baseball Food/Drink Sports

They both (statistics & bikinis) show a lot, but not everything.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

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

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire
Baseball Sports

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

I’ll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Age Baseball Old Sports

James 'Cool Papa' Bell was so fast, one time he hit a line drive right back past my ear. I turned round and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my “act,” it is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter
Baseball Sports

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

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire
Baseball Sports

I told him I wasn’t tired; he told me, ‘No, but the outfielders sure are.’

professional baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

That’s the fourth extra base hit for the Padres – two doubles and a triple.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

The Houston Astros play in a vast indoor stadium known as the Astrodome, but the problem is they field a half-vast team.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports Wordplay

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Andujar Cedeno to lead it off; he swings… and he is hit by a pitch… and it is hit over the wall and out of here for a home run.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

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
Appearance Baseball Body Intelligence Sports

Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

I'm happy for him [Gil Hodges]; that is, if you think becoming a big league manager is a good thing to have happen to you.

American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

Baseball, it is said, is only a game… true… and the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor
Baseball Sports

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

American essayist
Baseball Sports