Best MLB quotes?

[Deertick]

Most everyone can recite some favorites from the Babe or Yogi or Casey. But how about some others?

Richie Ashburn hit .350 in 1958 to win the batting title over Willie Mays. The Phillies sent him a contract with a $2,500 cut in salary for 1959.The Philies GM John Quinn hemmed and hawed and finally came up with an absurd reason: Ashburn didn't hit the ball 'far enough'.
"Well, if I hit them any farther they'd be outs."
-Richie Ashburn

[71buc]

“Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.” Wes Westrum

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

I want to be remembered as a Ballplayer who gave all I had to give. Clemente

[skooter]

" He slud into second for a stand-up double." Sat. Game of the Week

[Cat]

Not safe for kids:

http://youtu.be/fzjWQF1oP2M

[bigtrain]

"You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out it was the other way around all the time." - Jim Bouton

"If I'd played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress." - Mickey Mantle

[Deertick]

Lasorda always good for a laugh.

John Kruk on how to improve baseball:

"No Mascots on the field. Shoot anything that looked like it escaped from Sesame Street."

John Kruk on whether he was in shape after being on the DL:

"To run a marathon? Hell,no. To play baseball? F**k yeah."

Lou Piniella had some good ones...

"Statistics are like bikinis - they show a lot but not everything"

"We're fine. The only time we lose our concentration is when the umpire says, 'Play Ball'"

[71buc]

There have been only two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.- Tallulah Bankhead

"The fine was more than I expectorated"-Frenchy Bordagary, on being fined for spitting at an umpire.

Asked if he preferred Astroturf to grass "I don't know; I never smoked Astroturf."- Tug McGraw

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

[k-dog]

"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it!
~Rogers Hornsby

[bigtrain]

Not by a ballplayer but a funny one: "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering whether there is a man on base." - Dave Barry

[bigtrain]

"Best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and pick it up."
-Bob Uecker

" A guy once told me to walk with the Lord, I'd rather walk with the bases loaded." -Ken Singleton

[Deertick]

Originally Posted by bigtrain

not by a ballplayer but a funny one: "if a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering whether there is a man on base." - dave barry

+1 lol

[alanu]

"misremembered" -Roger Clemens

[Deertick]

“If they want to pay me like Mike Gallego, I’ll play like Gallego.” - Ricky Henderson

[gorrister]

“We get 18 off days a year, I think we deserve a little time to ourselves.” - Josh Beckett

[Exhibitman]

"Pitching is 80% of the game. The other half is hitting and fielding."
-- Mickey Rivers, baseball player

"I'm really relaxed, I really am. That's until I see the 6-foot-2, 230-pound guy who's going to throw who's never been to a Seder."
--Billy Crystal before facing major league pitching in a game

"You didn't come into this life just to sit around on a dugout bench, did ya? Now get your ass out there and do the best you can"
-- Coach Morris Buttermaker

"Those Yankees are real turds."
--Tanner Boyle

[Deertick]

I remember him on Johnny Carson and Carson asked what it was like when Niekro was pitching.

"I always thought it was a 'Catch-22'."
"How's that?" asked Johnny
"It's what I would do to every 100 pitches."

[gorrister]

There's no crying in baseball. - Jimmy Dugan