Favorite baseball quote?

Question

Can be funny or inspirational. Just a quote. Please include the author... I'd like the know.

Answer 1

"People ask me what I'll do all winter without baseball. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll look out the window and wait for Spring." -- Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby

Answer 2

human beings question me what I do in wintry climate whilst there is no baseball. i will inform you what I do. I stare out the window and watch for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby Baseball is the only field of employer the place a guy can prevail thrice out of ten and be seen a great performer. ~Ted Williams i'm confident that each boy, in his heart, might particularly scouse borrow 2d base than an automobile. ~Tom Clark A ball participant's have been given to be saved hungry to become a great-leaguer. that's why no boy from a wealthy kinfolk ever made the huge leagues. ~Joe DiMaggio throughout my 18 years I got here to bat just about 10,000 cases. I struck out a pair of million,seven hundred cases and walked possibly a million,800 cases. you artwork a ballplayer will universal approximately 500 at bats a season. which potential I performed seven years without ever hitting the ball. ~Mickey Mantle, 1970 It ain't like soccer. you are able to no longer make up no trick performs. ~Yogi Berra

Answer 3

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
i love this quote bcuz it is baiscally true 4 me 2. even though i can be content with watching hockey, but i love baseball 10x more but hockey is next.

Answer 4

"Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. 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. "
Terence Mann in Field of Dreams (played by James Earl Jones)

I also like Lou Gehrig's goodbye speech
"today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth"

Answer 5

Here's a recent one I got a chuckle out of:

Doug Mientkiewicz on Joel Zumaya:

"He was throwing 100 mph in the dark," Mientkiewicz told the Kansas City Star's Joe Posnanski. "All you can do is swing early and use Jedi mind tricks."

Answer 6

"See Ott? He's a nice guy, and nice guys finish last"

On his players opposing Jackie Robinson on the Dodgers,
"I don't care if the guy is yellow or black, or if he has stripes like a ******* zebra. I'm the manager of this team and I say he plays."

On an opposing player, "He can't hit, he can't field, he can't run—all he can do is beat you."

They are all from the same man, Leo Durocher.

Answer 7

“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.”


Its by bob feller

bye chiz baby!

Answer 8

Here's a couple greats by San Diego's Jerry Coleman:
And he slides into second base with a stand-up double.
...Winfield goes back... to the wall... he hits his head against the wall... and it rolls out into center field... oh, this is terrible.

And my personal favorite:
I know you can't win 'em all, but I'd like to win one. - Charlie Brown

Answer 9

"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

Answer 10

It helps if the hitters think you're a little crazy.
-Nolan Ryan

I don't want to play golf, when I hit a ball I want someone else to go chase it.
-Rodger Hornsby