Baseball Quotes

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?

We're just a bunch of dirtbag players and we just go out and play hard and it's not flashy by any means...There's nothing special about our team other than the fact that we play hard and we just grind it out. And maybe that's why people don't like us because we don't have anything special. And when we do do things special, I think it pisses people off. [partialquote]

Baseball has fallen. Yes, the national game has become degraded. At certain match games large amounts of money changed hands among the spectatory. A noted New York club is said to have sold the results of a match. Barred chins and broken fingers may be easily mended, but a disfigured reputation may never be entirely repaired. Once more, abandon the bat, boys, if you cannot keep the game pure.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

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

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.

The day they (Florida Marlins) let me go was the worst day of my career but what I didn't realize was that it would also turn out to be the best day of my career.

We've come to the conclusion that just about every manager is an idiot. Some are bigger idiots than others, but basically they're all idiots. There are certain things that all managers do because they've been brainwashed to think a certain way. Most of them played before advanced statistical work became in vogue, and due to that, they manage like a Baseball Tonight analyst. So, it's a question of finding a lesser degree of idiocy.

Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There’s no crying! THERE’S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.