Quotes by Baseball Players - Page 3

No, I don't go to that restaurant anymore. No body goes there. It's too crowded.
Yogi Berra
If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day
Sam Ewing
Time served does not guarantee maturity.
Doug Glanville
I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.
Curt Flood
purpose of life give away to vision, vision creates dream, and dreams become reality.
charley sweeney
If you wait until the next upgrade, you will never upgrade.
Wilson Alvarez
itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling
Dick Allen
Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy,maybe you can grasp it.
Dick Allen
You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,The crackle of their funeral pyres,
Dick Allen
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. -Tommy Lasorda
Tommy La Sorda
He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can’t talk to. It’s an awareness; it’s a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder’s going to take over and tell him what to do. And he’s done it well.
Don Sutton
I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.
Jim Abbott
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson
it was so hard to see what the future held because to perform at this game, you have to be “in the mud,” obsessed with the task at hand. Perspective is neutralized, stunted so that you can capture only the most relevant, time-sensitive data that will determine how to approach your opponent that day. Then you look up and realize your 20-year career has been a collection of days where you couldn’t see tomorrow.
Doug Glanville
The older they get, the better they get when they were younger
Jim Bouton
High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.
Jim Bouton
I was young enough to be an optimist.
Mike Mussina
Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near.
Jim Bouton
The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.
Jim Bouton
The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?
Jim Bouton
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
Billy Sunday
Listen, I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist, I've butt it as long as I've got a head, and I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.
Billy Sunday
Good Morning!
Billy Hatcher
The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
Billy Sunday
The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.
Jim Bouton
I am a new universe beginning to expand.
Scott Service
And suddenly, the earth was an alien place, and she a voyager without sure destination.
Rodgers Clemens
The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
Billy Sunday
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
Billy Sunday
age is a state of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
Satchel Paige
But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play--and don't play to bring their parents glory.
Yogi Berra
To see, all one has to do is look. To hear, all one has to do is listen.
Ben Chapman
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
Tommy Lasorda
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
If you don't know where you are going,you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
Being Jesus means that we go through life embracing it all fully and feeling it all deeply. That we don’t hide and try to protect ourselves. That we live. That we show up. That we laugh. That we cry. That we hurt. That we heal. That we care. That we love. And then, that we wake up the next morning and sign up for it all over again.
Jim Palmer
In our beautiful memoryWe were all handsomeWe could all singWe all had the heart Of the prettiest girl in townAnd we all hit .300
John Buck O'Neil
Banning the word bossy doesn’t promote anything, especially leadership. In fact, it would actually show that being bossy works. We don’t need to ban the word bossy, we need to get rid of bossiness. The best way to do that? Be a real leader. How poetic.
Darrell Cheney
When life stops you making progress, don't see it as a step backwards.Think of it as doing the Moonwalk.
Ben Chapman
The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.
Dick Allen
Every woman deserves to be handled like a princess, She just needs to find her prince.
Mitchell Edward Page
Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.
Billy Sunday
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it. [Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.]
J.R. Richard
it is what it is
Hank Knabe
I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.
George Brett
Do What You Love and You Will Love What You Do!
Neiman Nix
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
Billy Sunday
Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.
Bob Feller
I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.
Jim Bouton
Once upon a time,there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.
Dick Allen
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra