Mlb Quotes

Along the way they're (MLB) going to lose millions of more American fans.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

I really didn't say everything I said.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

It gets late early out there.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

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

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things that have come out of that. There has been a drug test policy that was been implemented that got the blessings of both the Players Association and MLB. They are trying to maintain the integrity of this sport and trying to get it back, but that cloud I think will hang over a little longer.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Every kid dreams of playing in the NFL or MLB and I was that 27-year-old that dreamed of fighting in the UFC. It was kind of surreal to see that I have actually accomplished what I set out to do. It's better than I could have ever imagined.

I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.