Baseball Quotes

Red Barber
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Fresco Thompson, on Babe Herman
He wore a glove for one reason: it was a league custom. The glove would last him a minimum of six years because it rarely made contact with the ball.

Tim McCarver
I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.

Danny Ozark, on Jay Johnstone
What makes him unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.

Jeff Smulyan
If it comes down to taking care of my mother in her old age and taking care of my centerfielder in his young age, I hope she understands.

Charles Bricker
Being named manager of the Seattle Mariners is like becoming the head chef at McDonalds.

Bill Veeck
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

President Gerald Ford
I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

Robert S. Wieder
Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.

Bill Lee
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate Church and State. You have to separate mind and body.