What are your favorite Baseball quotes?

[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

[whitehse]

I have this one at my desk at work.....

"Why certainly I'd like to have a fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he is pitching and who is always thinking about two innings ahead. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer, come down out of the stands and do those things!"

Danny Murtaugh