Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 6)

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

I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

And it’s a long drive down the line to centerfield.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

He needed a psychiatrist more than I did.

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

I’m no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and 4,200 hits.

American 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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & 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

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

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

Tell you what, you keep the salary and I'll keep me the cut.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Son, nobody is half as good as Mickey Mantle.

baseball player

Well, I see in the game in Minnesota that Terry Felton has relieved himself on the mound in the second inning.

sportscaster & former professional baseball player

If you are going to have a fight with a visiting club, be sure to insult them the day they come to town, and not the last day of the series. It pays off better.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

Baseball owners have moral scruples against taking any man’s dollar when there is a chance to take a dollar and a quarter.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

If you hit Polonia 100 fly balls, you could make a movie out of it — Catch 22.

baseball player

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

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

I'm really not a Facebook or Twitter guy; I'm a prime-rib-and-baked-potato guy.

American baseball player & manager

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

I would order a dozen bats and there were times they’d come back with handles at each end.

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