Quotes

Some famous, and not so famous quotes. Enjoy.

“A fly ball to deep left, a ball that’s carrying.”

—MLB The Show

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

—Babe Ruth

“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 us of all that once was good and that could be again.”

—James Earl Jones

“Baseball was just something to do in the spring and summer,” Gwynn once said. “I told my mom I didn’t think I would try baseball in college. She and my dad told me it was something I might want to fall back on.”

—- Tony Gwynn

“If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.” — Rickey Henderson

“Umm ok, 99 up and in on the hands, home run. Right?”

—Flash Wilder

“The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball, whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.”

—Michael Chabon

“Playing baseball for pay – home run. Teaching kids to play the game – priceless”

—Jack Perconte

Jim Hughson: “The winds are swirling at the park today Buck.”

Buck Martinez: “I love swirling winds.”