Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

Rogers Hornsby

Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest.

Rogers Hornsby

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

Rogers Hornsby

I stare out the window and wait for spring,

Rogers Hornsby

I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball.

Rogers Hornsby

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Rogers Hornsby

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Satchel Paige

I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.

Satchel Paige

The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

Satchel Paige

Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.

Satchel Paige

I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.

Satchel Paige

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

Satchel Paige

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

Satchel Paige

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

Sargent Shriver

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

Sandy Alderson

Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.

Sandy Koufax

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

Sandy Koufax

He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

Sandy Koufax

The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.

Sandy Koufax

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Richie Ashburn

A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.

Richie Ashburn

It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.

Richie Ashburn

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

Sam Crawford

Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.

Sadaharu Oh

I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

Sadaharu Oh

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

Ryan Guzman

That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.

Ryan Guzman

I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

Robert Kagan

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

Rodney Dangerfield

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

Rod Carew

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh.

Rod Carew

When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.

Roberto Clemente

Baseball has been very good to me.