Baseball Quote of the Day

[SDSportsChick]

Hi, all .... It's me again! I've found a new fascination with baseball quotes, and decided to start a thread for them. Actually, this thread originated on the MLB Pads board and is brought here by special request from Yagsy.

Please keep in mind that I'm picking these quotes at random ..... no rhyme or reason to the order. Some are humorous, some deep, some inspiring, and some may just tick ya off!

As always, comments, etc are welcomed! I'll start with one of my personal favorites .......

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
The game begins in the Spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the Summer, filling the afternoons and evenings. And then, as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the Fall alone. You count on it, rely on it, to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it the most, it stops. Today, October 2nd, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti, Commissioner of Baseball, 1988~1989
The Green Fields of the Mind

[PopTop]

Excellent idea, Dorca, and an excellent quote to start off with. :clap:



:bball:

[SDSportsChick]

Thanx, Pop Top ....... I appreciate the words of encouragement!!! :luvkiss: (Of course, you know you'll NEVER get rid of me now!!! ;) )

[yagsy]

:clap: GREAT quote to start. :D

I'll have to come up with some good ones but I love reading them from everyone else. :banana:

[SDSportsChick]

"These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up."
- Dave Winfield

[yagsy]

Jay Johnstone's best way to break in a bat boy 1988

"Send him to the bullpen to bring back the key to the batter's box"

[SDSportsChick]

"All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon."
– Mickey Mantle

[SDSportsChick]

"When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand."
– Reggie Jackson

[Chisox73]

Jay Johnstone's best way to break in a bat boy 1988

"Send him to the bullpen to bring back the key to the batter's box"
I saw Rick Sutcliffe pull that off when he was with the Cubs.He even had the home plate umpire in on the prank.It was hilarious.Even Steve Stone was taking the viewers along explaining the joke.

[SDSportsChick]

"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

[PopTop]

"A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded."

- - - Orioles OF Ken Singleton after he'd done just that in the '83 Series.

[yagsy]

"ain't no sense worryin' about things you got no control over, 'cause if you got no control over them, ain't no sense in worryin'!"

Mickey Rivers in his book cowritten by my old baseball buddy, Michael DeMarco

[SDSportsChick]

"Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead."
– Jackie Robinson

[yagsy]

Shoeless Joe Jackson on taking his bats back home to South Carolina in the winter...
"Bats don't like to freeze no more than me".

[SDSportsChick]

"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest."
– Ty Cobb

[PopTop]

"If the World Series goes seven games, it will be NBC's longest-running show this fall."
- - - Johnny Carson during a 1978 monologue.

[Baseball Guru]

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
The game begins in the Spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the Summer, filling the afternoons and evenings. And then, as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the Fall alone. You count on it, rely on it, to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it the most, it stops. Today, October 2nd, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti, Commissioner of Baseball, 1988~1989
The Green Fields of the Mind


One of my favorite quotes ever!!

[Baseball Guru]

"If the World Series goes seven games, it will be NBC's longest-running show this fall."
- - - Johnny Carson during a 1978 monologue.


Thats a great one! Never heard this one before:)

[Baseball Guru]

A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.
--Humphrey Bogart

[Baseball Guru]

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



One of my favorites:)

[Baseball Guru]

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball."
Pete Rose

[RockieBill]

"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will save the infant's life without even considering whether there are men on base." ~ Dave Barry

[PopTop]

:laff: Good one, RB. I've heard/read that before, and for some reason when I read it now, the voice from the Jack Handey (Handy?) "Deep Thoughts" segment of Saturday Night Live is what I hear.

[SDSportsChick]

"The baseball mania has run its course. It has no future as a professional endeavor."
- The Cincinnati Gazette, 1879

[Baseball Guru]

"The baseball mania has run its course. It has no future as a professional endeavor."
- The Cincinnati Gazette, 1879


:evillol :evillol :evillol :evillol

I'd say the Cincy Gazette was just a bit off on that one:D

[SDSportsChick]

LOL ..... Just a smidge!!!

[yagsy]

"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will save the infant's life without even considering whether there are men on base." ~ Dave Barry

Dave Barry never met me! :evillol

[SDSportsChick]

"They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of."
- Johnny Bench on hitting slumps

[yagsy]

"Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing."
Honus Wagner

[SDSportsChick]

"Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been."
– Mickey Mantle

[SDSportsChick]

"Ten million years from now, when then sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen iceball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out."
– Tug McGraw

[SDSportsChick]

"If you're going to burn the flag, don't do it in front of me. I've been to too many Veterans' Hospitals and seen too many broken bodies of guys who tried to protect it."
- Rick Monday

[SDSportsChick]

"If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit."
– Branch Rickey

[SDSportsChick]

"When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and join a circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both."
- Graig Nettles

[SDSportsChick]

"The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again."
- James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams (1989)

[SDSportsChick]

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.
--Bob Feller

[SDSportsChick]

"One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something."
--Nolan Ryan

[SDSportsChick]

"I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit."
– Ted Williams

[SDSportsChick]

"There was no intent. I was fired up and emotional and flung the bat toward the on-deck circle where the batboy was (during Game 2 of the 2000 World Series). I had no idea that Mike (Piazza) was running. I guess it came close to him. I came back into the dugout and I said I've got to get control of my emotions and calm down."
– Roger Clemens

[SDSportsChick]

"Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?"
– Bob Uecker

[SDSportsChick]

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must."
– Branch Rickey

[SDSportsChick]

There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do."
– Sandy Koufax

[SDSportsChick]

"Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss."
– Dizzy Dean

[SDSportsChick]

"Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere."
– Babe Ruth