Baseball Quotes

[brob28]

I was looking through some photos from my trip to Cooperstown last year and found this of a quote from Casey Stengel. Let's see your favorite baseball quotes.

[Paul S]

"It ain't over until it's over" - Yogi

[Wite3]

Tommy Lasorda has many many great quotes but my favorite all time was given about Darryl Strawberry after his first season in L.A. He was awful and a huge disappointment to Dodger fans. A reporter asked Tommy something about Darryl dogging it in the outfield...

"He is not a dog; a dog is loyal and runs after balls."

Joshua

[wolf441]

My favorite isn't a quote, it's a rant by Cubs manager Lee Elia lashing out at Cuns fans on April 29, 1983. In honor of the 30 year annivesary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0CDtEz_Bo

[Tobacco&Gum]

"Hit 'em where they ain't"

-Wee Willie Keeler

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Former Red Sox pitcher Frank Sullivan on how he faced Mickey Mantle; "With tears in my eyes."

[EvilKing00]

Originally Posted by Wite3

Tommy Lasorda has many many great quotes but my favorite all time was given about Darryl Strawberry after his first season in L.A. He was awful and a huge disappointment to Dodger fans. A reporter asked Tommy something about Darryl dogging it in the outfield...

"He is not a dog; a dog is loyal and runs after balls."

Joshua

omg thats great, never heard that one. im a huge et fan as well as love Darryl but he never did like busting it to catch a ball.


Here is a funny one all mets fans will remember - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz15iZfnTtI

[cardinalcollector]

Bob Uecker:

"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up."

[tedzan]

Satchell Paige is known for saying quite a number of "Paige-isms. Here is one of his well known quotes......

"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."







TED Z

[deadballfreaK]

In a rather confusing play Babe Herman hit a ball off the wall with the bases loaded and the Dodgers wound up with three men on 3rd base. Dazzy Vance who had somehow failed to score from 2nd was diving back into third with Chick Fewster standing on the bag already and Herman sliding in thinking he was getting a triple. While the umpires were trying to figure it out, Vance made a speech, "Mr. Umpire, fellow teammates, and members of the opposition. If you carefully peruse the rules of our national pastime you will find that there is one and only one protagonist in rightful occupation of this hassock - namely yours truly, Arthur C. Vance". And he was right. The other two were out.

[auggiedoggy]

Any Yogi Berra quote works for me!

On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

[Rob D.]

"Guys, there's clap in the Valley."

-- Brewers minor-league director Bruce Manno, spring training 1985, Phoenix

[mets41]

Sparky Anderson in his HOF induction speach: "Baseball is a great game and if you don't like it GET OUT."

[jb217676]

"You can't hit what you can't see." – Walter Johnson

[gavvy]

Manager concerned over Hack Wilson's heavy drinking.

"When I put a worm in a glass of water nothing happens to it. But when I put it in a glass of whiskey it dies. What does that tell you?"

Hack's response: "That I'll never get worms from drinking whiskey."

[slidekellyslide]

"In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball...Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms...the game of ball is glorious."

Walt Whitman 1846

[wolf441]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

"In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball...Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms...the game of ball is glorious."

Walt Whitman 1846

+1. Love it! The beginning to Ken Burns Baseball - First Inning. Whenever I've had a stressful day at work, I throw that DVD in and it always relaxes me!!

[Deertick]

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

And Bob Ueker on the "Tonight Show":

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."

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Deertick

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

I wonder if that was the unsigned contract that was up for auction in Hunt's last month? There was a signed note with it from Ashburn.

[sycks22]

"I'm your new catcher and you just got lesson number one: don't think, it can only hurt the ballclub." Crash Davis

[HercDriver]

Another one from Ball Four:

Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, “It’s hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.”

Classic...

Geno

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by HercDriver

Another one from Ball Four:

Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, “It’s hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.”

Classic...

Geno

I think I forget how funny that book is!