Quotes

Some famous, and not so famous quotes. Enjoy.

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”

—Hank Aaron

“Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.”

—David James Duncan

“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

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

—Flash Wilder

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

“David Justice :What’s your biggest fear?

Scott Hatteberg : A baseball being hit in my general direction.”

– ‘Moneyball’.

—Moneyball

“The next time someone whines that baseball doesn’t have enough action, you can do two things: first, explain the planning, strategizing, calculating, and deception that place before every pitch. Then quote Hall-of-Fame announcer Red Barber: “Baseball is dull only to dull minds.”

—Zack Hample

“No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.”

—Tommy Lasorda

Hey ladies in the place, I’m callin’ out to ya
There never was a city kid truer and bluer
There’s more to me than you’ll ever know
And I’ve got more hits than Sadaharu Oh