Best MLB quotes?

[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