Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 7)

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

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

American baseball pitcher

The only good thing about playing for Cleveland is you don't have to make road trips there.

American baseball player

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year… it was my second season in the bigs.

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

People don't know this but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant; I came down with hepatitis… the trainer injected me with it.

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

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader and that puts another keg in the Cubs’ coffin.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

The day I got a hit off Sandy Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

I had some bad days in the field… but I didn’t take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way.

professional baseball player & manager

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist

Reporter: Will you be rooting for the American League or National League in the All Star Game?

Dole: Probably.

(1923 – ) U.S. senator (Kansas) & presidential candidate

One night we play like King Kong, the next night like Fay Wray.

American baseball player & manager

I’m going to Radio Shack to buy one of those headsets like the broadcasters use… it seems as soon as you put them on, you get 100 times smarter.

American baseball manager

Most ball games are lost, not won.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I tell him ‘Attaway to hit, George.’

American baseball manager

The place was cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

professional baseball player

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

baseball broadcaster

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

If you play against him, you hate him; if you play with him, you hate him a little less.

(1964 – ) Venezuelan-American baseball player & manager

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

American baseball pitcher

Baseball is like church…. many attend, few understand.

(1906 – 1991) American baseball player, coach & manager