Quotes on Baseball

Ted Lyons, on Moe Berg
He could speak in eight languages, but he couldn't hit in any of them.

Walt Whitman
I see great things in baseball. It's our game -- the American game. It will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair those losses, and be a blessing to us.

Robert Belinsky
How can a guy win a game if you don't give him any runs?

Casey Stengel
I got a kid, Greg Goosen, he's nineteen years old and in ten years he's got a chance to be twenty-nine.

George Brett
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.

Dick Allen
If horses can't eat it, I won't play on it.

Casey Stengel
Look at him. He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't chew, he doesn't stay out late, and he still can't hit .250.

Norm Cash
Pro-rated at 500 at-bats per year, my 1,081 strike-outs would mean that for 2 years out of the 14 I played, I never touched the ball.

Ty Cobb
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

Bobby Murcer
Trying to hit him (Phil Niekro) was like trying to eat Jell-O with chopsticks.