Baseball Quotes

[howard38]

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[Jay Wolt]

Some memorable Ty Cobb quotes...

"I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."

"When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch."

"The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first.
I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault."

[Peter_Spaeth]

Ty Cobb, asked in the 1950s what he would hit if he played today: about .275. When the interviewer expressed shock, Cobb added, I am almost 70 years old.

[KCRfan1]

Dodger pitcher Jerry Reuss was in a tight ball game. Tommy Lasorda went out to the mound with the intent to pull Reuss. Of course, Reuss wanted to continue to pitch. As Lasorda and Reuss were going back and forth about his staying or going, Yeager made it to the mound. Lasorda told Reuss that he would put it to a vote and be Democratic about it. Lasorda voted to pull Reuss, Reuss naturally said he wanted to pitch. With Yeager by his side, Reuss figured he had this in the bag. Lasorda asked Yeager what he thought, and Yeager said " Shoot, I would have pulled him two innings ago ".

[deadballfreaK]

Crash Davis: Yeah, I was in the show. I was in the show for 21 days once - the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.

Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob.

Relax, all right? Don't try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls - it's more democratic.

Man that ball got outta here in a hurry. I mean anything travels that far oughta have a damn stewardess on it, don't you think?