Nine Baseball Quotes
November 27, 2007 by Geoff Young
Filed under Odds and Ends
Stupid fun for a Tuesday…
- 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 throwing balls by you.
- –Reggie Jackson
- The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain’s free throws.
- –Rick Wise
- This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
- –Bill Veeck
- Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
- –Pat Conroy
- 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
- There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
- –Charlie Lau
- What are we at the park for except to win? I’d trip my mother. I’d help her up, brush her off, tell her I’m sorry. But mother don’t make it to third.
- –Leo Durocher
- Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
- –Yogi Berra
- (Dave) Winfield goes back to the wall, he hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It’s rolling all the way back to second base. This is a terrible thing for the Padres.
- –Jerry Coleman
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