What are your favorite Baseball quotes?

[brickyardkennedy]

Probably not entirely in the spirit of Jimmy's post, but I get a laugh out of Frenchy Bordagaray's response to a question regarding how he felt about his fine for spitting on an umpire:

"Well, it was more than I expectorated".

[drc]

Most anything from Yogi Berra.

"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing." -- Warren Spahn

"My job isn't to strike guys out, its to get them out, sometimes by striking them out." -- Tom Seaver

[Jantz]

"It is a haunted game in which every player is measured against the ghosts of all who have gone before"


Jantz

[bh3443]

" I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice."--- Casey Stengel

I read this above his minor league card in Heritage's Auction Books that came this morning and thought you'd enjoy it as much as I did!
Thanks,
Bill

[sox1903wschamp]

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?

Satchel Paige

[mayx2]

I'm in operation shutdown!

Derek Bell Pittsburgh Pirates.He left the team and Pirates had to eat like 7M.
No good POS



Lou

[Kawika]

"You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church."
-Bill "Spaceman" Lee

"They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it."
-Willie Mays

"We (the Mets) are a much improved ball club, now we lose in extra innings!"
and anything else by Casey Stengel (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quosteng.shtml)

"(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit."
-Babe Ruth

"Pick 'em up at 7:00, stick your hand down their panties by 7:05. If they go for it you've got it made. If they don't you've got the rest of the evening to find somebody else."
-Christy Mathewson
(nah nah, jus' keedin', it was Leo Durocher)

[mets41]

"baseball is a great game and if you don't like it--GET OUT". Sparky Anderson in his baseball hall of fame induction speach

[iwantitiwinit]

Stop uppercutting, stop turning your head, get your elbow up!!!!

My DAD

[Jantz]

"theres no crying in baseball"

Jimmy Dugan

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I hate using a Ruth quote (so overused), but nobody has mentioned it:

"I had a better season than he did."

[Jay Wolt]

Quotes about Sandy Koufax

"A foul ball was a moral victory." - Don Sutton

"Career highlights? I had two. I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets." - Bob Uecker

"Either he throws the fastest ball I've ever seen, or I'm going blind." - Richie Ashburn

"He throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see." - Gene Mauch

"I can see how he won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five." - Yogi Berra

"The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over." - Sparky Anderson

"Trying to hit him was like trying to drink coffee with a fork." - Willie Stargell

"We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax." - Whitey Herzog

[bigtrain]

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

"I'm throwing the ball as hard as I ever did, it's just not getting there as fast." - Lefty Gomez

Asked why he showed little emotion, Joe DiMaggio - "I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

Upon hearing of the death of the Pope, Phil Rizzuto -"Well that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win."

"Nobody can throw a fastball that I can't hit. If God came down from heaven, he couldn't throw a fastball by me." - Ted Williams

[iwantitiwinit]

We finished last with you, we can finish last without you.

[Jim VB]

George Steinbrenner desk plaque



"Lead. Follow. Or get the hell out of my way!"


Much more than baseball advice.

[william_9]

Originally Posted by bigtrain

"I'm throwing the ball as hard as I ever did, it's just not getting there as fast." - Lefty Gomez

Bob Feller gave the same quote after starting the first inning of this year's Hall of Fame Classic.

[bigtrain]

No matter how you feel about the author the final line of Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" is a classic:
"You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."

[thekingofclout]

You're spot-on Tom. A truly classic quote.

[Robextend]

Connie Mack on Rube Waddell:

""He was the atom bomb of baseball long before the atom bomb was discovered..."