Favorite baseball quote

[111411]

What is your favorite baseball quote?

[111411]

"Wanna have a catch?" Field of Dreams

"Let's play two." Ernie Banks

"There's no such thing as luck in sports. Luck is the product of preparation and execution." Tony Larussa

[IMHO]

What is your favorite baseball quote?

One a wish I heard more often, " And this one belongs to the Reds"

[111411]

One a wish I heard more often, " And this one belongs to the Reds"

I agree.

[cman33]

"Total pitches isn't a stat!".... Lebron James
"My time has come!"..... Mike Carps
"If you don't like it you can get out."..... Big Louie Johnson
"Has anyone seen the dog?"..... Jim Thome
"Wow!".... Barry Bonds
Just to name a few

[Caleb]

It's getting late early

Yogi Berra

[Small ball]

These are two of my all time favorites. "I'd walk through ---- in a gasoline suit to play baseball" - Pete Rose

" I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it" - Sandy Koufax

[Mr. Slippery]

Harry Doyle: JUUUUST a bit outside.

Harry Doyle: That's all we got, one godd@mn hit?
Monty: You can't say godd@mn on the air.
Harry Doyle: Don't worry, nobody is listening anyway.

"He slides into second with a stand-up double" - Herb Score

"A swing and a drive to deep right, WAAAAAAY BACK, and GONE..." - Tom Hamilton

[Yellow_Jacket06]

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. - Mickey Mantle


It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in Baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the Golf Course. - Hank Aaron


The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse, or chase broads. I don't see how he can possibly make it. - Richie Ashburn


All I want is for my case to be heard by an impractical decision-maker. - Pete Rose


If a women has to choose between catching a fly ball & saving an infants life, she will save the infants live without even considering if there is a Man on Base. - Dave Barry


I'm glad I don't play anymore, I could never learn all those handshakes. - Phil Rizzuto

[CrAzYInDiAn08]

The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come. -Field of Dreams-

[CrAzYInDiAn08]

and this baseball poem...

Baseball Is by Greg Hall

Baseball is grass, chalk, and dirt displayed the same yet differently
In every park that has ever heard the words play ball.
Baseball is a passion that bonds and divides all those who know it.
Baseball is a pair of hands stained with newsprint,
A set of eyes squinting to read a boxscore,
A brow creased in an attempt to recreate a three-hour game
From an inch square block of type.
Baseball is the hat I wear to mow the lawn.
Baseball is a simple game of catch
and the never-ending search for the perfect knuckleball.
Baseball is Willie vs Mickey, Gibson vs Koufax, and Buddy Biancalana vs the odds.
Baseball links Kansan and Missourian, American and Japanese,
But most of all father and son.
Baseball is the scent of spring,
The unmistakable sound of a double down the line,
And the face of a 10-year-old emerging from a pile of bodies
With a worthless yet priceless foul ball.
Baseball is a language of very simple words that tell unbelievably magic tales.
Baseball is three brothers in the same uniform on the same team for one brief summer
Captured forever in a black and white photo on a table by the couch.
Baseball is a glove on a shelf, oiled and tightly wrapped,
Slumbering through the stark winter months.
Baseball is a breast pocket bulging with a transistor radio.
Baseball is the reason there are transistor radios.
Baseball is a voice in a box describing men you've never met,
In a place you've never been,
Doing things you'll never have the chance to do.
Baseball is a dream that you never really give up on.
Baseball is precious.
Baseball is timeless.
Baseball is forever.

[pnthrz4life]

"Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes it rains."
-Bull Durham

[FMZ]

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

[knightgeek27]

"I found a delivery in my flaw."- the late Dan Quisenberry.

[bearcatbabe24]

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
-Hank Aaron

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field?
-Jim Boulton

"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."
-Gerald Early

And my favorite...
When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
-Dwight D Eisenhower

[Hadrian]

"There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first or last time, I owe him my best"

-Joe DiMaggio

[cpc5304]

"Trying to pitch to him was like trying to drink coffee with a fork."- I don't remember who said this but I'm pretty sure it was about pitching to Pete Rose.

There are some really good ones in this thread.

Almost anything from Field of Dreams or For Love of the Game. As a matter of fact, it should be illegal for Kevin Costner to make a movie that isn't about baseball. Compare his track record of baseball movies (Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, For Love of the Game) vs his non baseball movies (Waterworld, The Postman, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves). I rest my case.

[playthegame25]

"Pitchers, like poets, are born, not made." - Cy Young

[starkravingdad]

Teammate: "What time is it?"
Yogi: "You mean right now?"

[villeboy4life20]

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton

Crash Davis: Well, he really hit the s--t outta that one, didn't he?
[laughs]
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: [softly, infuriated] I held it like an egg.
Crash Davis: Yeah, and he scrambled the son of a bi$%h. Look at that, he hit the f-ing bull! Guy gets a free steak!
-Bull Durham


You'll always need the game, more than the game needs you.
-Not Sure

[Cattani]

"There's no crying in baseball!"
"Man, he hit that one like he KNEW it was coming!"
"Someone put a quarter in the merry-go-round..."
"He'll need a rocket up his ___ to catch that one!"
"It's like pissin in the wind" (HS coach quote here!)
"He makes that play 999 times out of 100!"

There's more...I'll post when I can think of them.

[basesloaded]

You may run like Mays but you hit like s_it.

ah i like Jesus (haysus) but he no help with curveball
you trying to tell me jesus christ can't hit a curveball.

[injuredx2]

"90% of the game is half mental"-yogi

[natisports09]

Conservation Henry, Managing resources, now THATS the key to baseball!

Rookie of the Year

[Daddy]

Major League II-
-"Tolbert hits one deep towards South America. Tomlinson's gonna need a
visa to catch this one."

The Sandlot-
-"You're KILLING me Smalls!"

Great quotes from Major League, Bull Durham, and The Field of Dreams.

[bushman20]

Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand -Wes Westrum

My high school baseball coaches provided some of the all time classics that I will never forget:

Jeff Graffice
"If you aint gonna give it your all...then get the ---- out!!! We've got 29 others, and we don't need ya!"
"quit checkin the oil!!!"
"If you don't go out and play the way you guys can play...anyone will go out and kick your dick in the dirt!"


Mike Schott
"Run it out jack!!!"
"When I see you guys take the field...I see some of the greatest athletes I've ever coached out there playing rinky dink ball!!!"

[polarkid7]

"Sharp one hopper to Vizquel, who fields it on two hops and throws him out"
"Hard hit ball down the line....is it fair...is it foul....YES IT IS!"

[Fielders Choice]

"This is the old left hander rounding third and heading for home"
Goodnight everybody.

[daddyj]

"This is the old left hander rounding third and heading for home"
Goodnight everybody.

When you swing the bat your dangerous,Thanks Joe

[hehateme2911]

"I remember a warm summer day in my childhood, going fishing with a friend and talking about our dreams. I told him I wanted to be a major league baseball player, and he told me that he wanted to be the President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." - Dwight Eisenhower

[ITCLfan4LIFE]

DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE CURVEBALL RICKY...GIVE'M THE HEATER
-Lou Brown

[bulldawg25]

Commentator: "How do your catch a knucle ball?"

Bob Uecker: " Wait for it to stop rolling and pick it up"

[Wolfman1]

“Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?”
~ Dizzy Dean

[YouWishYouKnew11]

being from hamilton, my favorite baseball quotes are...

"No man ever stood so tall as when he stooped down to help a child." (not sure thats exact words, but pretty close. on the WSLL dugout.)

"Rounding Third and Heading Home." we all know who that is. RIP.

[Fielders Choice]

"I wish he (Hank Aaron) were still playing. I'd probably crack his head open to show him how valuable I was."

Roger Clemens after Hank Aaron commented taht pitchers should not be allowed to win the MVP award.

[TheRealVille#2]

"I've seen better swings on a playground" or "Get em a bucket, hes throwin up", or "Dirt! Ball! Dirt! Ball! Get them Worms some helmets!" only ones i've really heard during a highschool game.

[ColerainWinsAgain]

"There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The two o'clock bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at five o'clock."

-David Bristol-

[WoodyHayes]

A lot of coaches and parents have to be recovering cocaine addicts.
They get any where near a white line and they go friggin crazy.
I will let him remain anonymous (Texas Umpire)

[YouWishYouKnew11]

"I wish he (Hank Aaron) were still playing. I'd probably crack his head open to show him how valuable I was."

Roger Clemens after Hank Aaron commented taht pitchers should not be allowed to win the MVP award.

In response to this quote i would have to say he was/is suffering from ROID Rage. lol :shrug:

[Canes Baseball]

A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." - jim Bouton

[daddyj]

Hey Cowgirls,See the grass don't eat it. A League Of Their Own.

[owlsbball13]

Stride, little, big- Coach Bill Doran Senior
The only place wher success comes before work is in the dictionary- Sparky Anderson/Vince Lombardi.

[ABCP]

"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to chase it." -- Rogers Hornsby

[ButlerAviator83]

"Up your butt Jobu.......Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill."
- Eddie Harris (Seconds prior to being taken out by a flying baseball bat)

"Are you trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?"
- Eddie Harris