What's your favorite baseball quote?

Question

I've got quite a few of them...

I'm curious to see what others favorite quotes from MLB players, managers, etc. are.

No right or wrong answers, this is just a fun question.

Answer 1

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby

that is basically what i do love that quote!



There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher

this is true with me too!



those are the ones i can think of as of now.. i have other favorites but i can't think of them at this moment

Answer 2

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ~Ted Williams I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ~Tom Clark A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues. ~Joe DiMaggio 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. ~Mickey Mantle, 1970 It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays. ~Yogi Berra

Answer 3

After the 1960 season the Yankees let Casey Stengel go saying he is 70 years old and if he was 50 he would still be managing the Yankees. Casey responded be saying, " I will never make the mistake of being 70 again". The Mets wanted a big name to manage their new team and no one was bigger than Casey in New York at that time. He accepted the job to manage the Mets by saying, "Most people my age are dead at the present time". During his four years with the Mets his record was 194-452 and they couldn't get fans to come to the ballpark. It was Casey that coined the phrase, "Come and see my amazing Mets" and they are still referred to as the "amazing Mets" today. One of my favorite quotes came from Casey during one of the long losing streaks with the Mets when he said, " Good times are just around the corner but we don't know how long the block is". It brings back a lot of memories for me so thank you for asking the question.

Answer 4

Baseball is a red blooded sport for red blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. Its a struggle for supremacy. A survival of the fittest.

--Ty Cobb



BTW in response to "The Mick 7"s Yogi Berra Quote...the actual quote is "Hitting is 90% mental. The other half is physical."

Answer 5

That's a Winner, A World Series Winner for the Cardinals.

Jack Buck

It Ain't over till its over



Yogi Berra

Answer 6

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ~Ted Williams





Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. ~Nomar Garciaparra



Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you. ~Reggie Jackson

Answer 7

Yogi is the king of Quotes!



"You can observe a lot by watching"



"If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them"



"I usually take a two hour nap from one to four"

Answer 8

Too many!



"Don't just feel happy just to be in the playoffs; win this thing. Win this thing!"

-Ozzie Guillen on making the playoffs with the White Sox in 2005



"Shut your mouths. Shut your mouths everyone."

- Carl Everett after winning the World Series in Chicago saying to all of he anaylists to be quiet about criticizing the White Sox.



"Ohhhhhhhh, that hurt!"

-Aaron Rowand after crashing into the wall in the 2005 ALDS against the Red Sox.

Answer 9

"I won't play until I drop, but I will play until I damn near drop".

Babe Ruth.



"When you think of me, think of me on the field".

Don Mattingly.



"I want to thank the good lord for making me a Yankee".

Joe DiMaggio.



"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth".

Lou Gehrig.



"God Bless all of you, and God bless this wonderful game, they call baseball".

Phil Rizzuto.



"No disrespect to the Red Sox, Celtics, Cowboys, Packers, Dodgers. The greatest name in sports belongs to the Yankees".

Reggie Jackson.



"It ain't over till it's over".

Yogi Berra.



"Mets fans should go home and put on their Yankee stuff".

Chipper Jones.



"Mets fans are stupid".

Rey Ordonez.



"I may have not been the greatest Yankee, but I am the proudest".

Billy Martin.



"Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time."

Mickey Mantle.



"You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October."

Whitey Ford.

Answer 10

Mine comes from an intersting place.........I like the baseball quote from the Cinderella Movie:



"Don't let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game"

Answer 11

my top 2 favorite quotes

1.Yogi Berra- " It ain't over ' til its over"



i love it because that's something that's is true to never give up



2. Joe DiMaggio-

"I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee"



I'm also thankful to GOD hes a Yankee

Answer 12

a few:



"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." - Aaron Levenstein



"predictions are tough, especially when they are about the future". -Yogi Berra



"Cool Papa Bell hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his *** sliding into second." - Satchel Paige





lol... All stolen from my favorite blog of course.

Answer 13

"That ball wouldn't have been out of a lot of parks." Name one. "...Yellowstone?" Major league



" It might be ... it could be.... IT IS..... Holey Cow ! "Harry Caray



Not necessarily a baseball quote but I like it anyway

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler

Answer 14

LOVE the quotes so far. Mostly #1. Very sad.



Either:

"I had a great year and left my guts out on the field."-

A-Rod (I think)



Or



"Why do people sing 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' when they're already there?" -Alex Rodriguez



Or



"I like hitting fourth and I like the good batting average. But what I do everyday behind the plate is a lot more important because it touches so many more people and so many more aspects of the game." -Thurman Munson

Answer 15

"Baseball's weird sometimes. You can't really explain things. Guess we need to throw another quarter in the merry-go-round." - Travis Hafner

Answer 16

"Baseball is not a matter of life and death, but the Boston Red Sox are." - Mike Barnicle



“But I guess when you don’t feel good and you still get hits, that’s when you know you are a bad man” - Manny Ramirez



And anything Yogi Berra ever said.

Answer 17

Yogi Berra: "Baseball is 90% mental the other half is physical".



Thanks Rocker, I thought it was something like that!

Answer 18

Anything by Yogi Berra but two that I can recall from him at the moment are:



"You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you."



and



"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."

Answer 19

"What can I say but call the Yankees my Daddy?"



-Pedro Martinez, Red Sox, 2003 after crushing ALCS defeat to the Yankees.



The next year the Sox down, 3-0 to the Yankees came back and won the ALCS and then won the World Series.

Answer 20

If its fair its gone!



its funny when they it in baseball games on like a slow groundball - which has no chance of being HR

Answer 21

90% of this game is mental. The other half is physical - Yogi Berra

Answer 22

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Answer 23

Cal Ripken, the Iron Man. After reading the NEW york

Herald on August 31st showing a story that the Red Sox

had swept the World Series in 1970. What No Playoffs

I thought the Yankees played every year?

Answer 24

Good pitching beats good hitting every time. . .and vice versa



Dock Ellis, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher

Answer 25

"Ain't nothing to being a ball player, if your a ball player."

Honus Wagner

Answer 26

90% of the game is mental. the other half is physical





Yogi Berra

Answer 27

Let's play two---Ernie Banks

Answer 28

Swing and miss in batting practice, pack your stuff to Double AA

Answer 29

"Today, I consider myself, the luckiest man on the face of the earth,"

Answer 30

"Just a bit ouside"

Answer 31

"There's no crying in baseball !!! "

Answer 32

''Its not over till the fat lady sings''