Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mickey Mantle

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

Mickey Mantle

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

Mickey Mantle

Thank God for baseball.

Mickey Mantle

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

Mickey Mantle

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

Mickey Mantle

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

Mickey Mantle

The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

Mickey Mantle

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Nicholas Brendon

I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

Ned Yost

Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.

Ned Colletti

The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.

Mike Piazza

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Mike Piazza

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

Neville Cardus

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

Neville Cardus

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

Joey Jordison

If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat.

Joe Mauer

It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.

Joe Morgan

Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.

Joe Morgan

A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

Joe Montana

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

Joe Namath

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

Joe DiMaggio

Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.

Joe DiMaggio

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

Joe DiMaggio

I thought he had been shot.

Joe DiMaggio

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

Joe DiMaggio

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

Jodi Picoult

Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.

Jodi Picoult

Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.

Ken Burns

No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.

Oscar Levant

Ballet is the fairies baseball.

Orel Hershiser

The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.

Kid Rock

Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.

Ken Rosenthal

Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game.