Baseball Quotes & Sayings (Baseball Games, Players, Cricket, Softball, World Series, etc). You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barry. 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. 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. I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. Tom Clark. A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.
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M*A*S*H, Klinger, "Bug- Out," 1. A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. Humphrey Bogart. You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. Roy Campanella. No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. Paul Gallico. There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem — once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. Al Gallagher, 1. 97.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. Earl Wilson. Baseball was made for kids, and grown- ups only screw it up.
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Bob Lemon. What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.. There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. George Bernard Shaw. 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 these losses, and be a blessing to us. Walt Whitman. Baseball is a fun game.
It beats working for a living. Phil Linz. When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." ~Willie Stargell, 1. Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1. Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball — you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him?
Earl Weaver quotes including baseball quotes from Earl Weaver and baseball quotes about. if he gets thrown out of the game.' - Earl Weaver. but before the ball. Place your vote on the list of Top Ten Best Baseball Players of. else in the game of baseball. he played in the majors 6 years BEFORE they started.
Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. Nomar Garciaparra.
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. Rogers Hornsby. When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law. With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.
Art Hill. That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em. Humphrey Bogart. When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen. Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. Jim Murray. Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
Ken Harrelson, Sports Illustrated, 6 September 1. Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa. Bob Veale, 1. 96. Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.
Reggie Jackson. Strikeouts are boring — besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic. ~From the movie Bull Durham. Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? Jim Bouton, 1. 98. Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
Joe Garagiola. I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all. Bob Lemon, 1. 97. It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one. Chuck Tanner. Poets are like baseball pitchers.
Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. Robert Frost. Say this much for big league baseball — it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. Bruce Catton. The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash. Jim Murray. It breaks your heart.
It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in 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. A. Bartlett Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, November 1. Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring. Jerry Izenberg. The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws. Rick Wise, 1. 97. If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it.
Dick Allen, on artificial turf, 1. A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big- leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues. Joe Di. Maggio, quoted in New York Times, 3.
April 1. 96. 1Baseball 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.
Bill Veeck. Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them how to say: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth has upped Daddy's paycheck by fifteen to forty percent." ~Waite Hoyt.
Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. Attributed to both Joe Adcock and Curt Simmons. Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. Author Unknown. Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. The Villains in Blue," Time magazine, 2. August 1. 96. 1I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen.
Bob Lemon, 1. 98. 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. You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. Leo Durocher, in New York Times, 1.
May 1. 96. 5You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance.
That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. Earl Weaver. It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old- time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards. Mike Royko. Pro- rated at 5.
I played, I never even touched the ball. Norm Cash, on his 1,0.
During my 1. 8 years I came to bat almost 1. I struck out about 1,7. You figure a ballplayer will average about 5. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. Mickey Mantle, 1. Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound. Jim Murray, on Sandy Koufax.
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice. Casey Stengel, 1. Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self- esteem.
Saul Steinberg. The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays. Lawrence Ritter. The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid. Don Drysdale, quoted in New York Times, 9 July 1. It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays. Yogi Berra. Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game.
I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1. A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more.
Arthur Daley. That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. Bill Veeck, 1. 97. A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves. Brendan Francis. Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs.
That's baseball as it should be played — in God's own sunshine. And that's really living. Alvin Dark. Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive- compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 1. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state- of- the- art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick. ~Thomas Boswell, Washington Post, 1. April 1. 99. 0This is a game to be savored, not gulped.
List of Major League Baseball players suspended for performance- enhancing drugs. In January 2. 00.
Major League Baseball announced a new drug policy which included random, offseason testing and 1. This policy strengthened baseball's pre- existing ban on controlled substances, including steroids, which has been in effect since 1. The policy was to be reviewed in 2. U. S. Congress, on November 1.
In December 2. 00. Sports Illustrated named baseball's steroid scandal of performance- enhancing drugs as the number one sports story of the decade of the 2. The current penalties, adopted on March 2.
Players are also prohibited from participating in that year's post- season regardless of when their suspension is completed. Suspended players[edit]. At the end of the 2. Mike Cameron was suspended for 2. Players who were on major league rosters[edit]Player.
Team. Date announced. Penalty. Position.
Response. Ref. Alex SГЎnchez. Tampa Bay Devil Rays. April 3, 2. 00. 50.
OF[a][5]Jorge Piedra. Colorado Rockies. April 1. 1, 2. 00. OF[b][6]Agust. Гn Montero. Texas Rangers. April 2.
P[c][8]Jamal Strong. Seattle Mariners. April 2. 6, 2. 00. OF[d][1. 0]Juan Rinc. Гіn. Minnesota Twins. May 2, 2. 00. 50. P[e][1. 0]Rafael Betancourt.
Cleveland Indians. July 8, 2. 00. 50.
P[f][1. 3]Rafael Palmeiro. SSGGBaltimore Orioles. August 1, 2. 00. 50. DH[g][1. 5]Ryan Franklin. Seattle Mariners. August 2, 2. 00. 50. P[h][1. 7]Mike Morse.
Seattle Mariners. September 7, 2. 00. SS[i][1. 9]Carlos Almanzar. Texas Rangers. October 4, 2.
P[j][2. 1]FГ©lix Heredia. New York Mets. October 1. P[k][2. 3]Matt Lawton. New York Yankees. November 2, 2. 00.
OF[l][2. 5]Yusaku Iriki. New York Mets. April 2. P[m][2. 7]Jason Grimsley. Arizona Diamondbacks. June 1. 2, 2. 00. P[n][2. 9]Guillermo Mota.
New York Mets. November 1, 2. P[o][3. 1]Juan Salas. Tampa Bay Devil Rays. May 7, 2. 00. 70. P[p][3. 3]Neifi PГ©rez. GGDetroit Tigers. July 6, 2. 00. 70.
UT[q][3. 6]Neifi PГ©rez (2)GGDetroit Tigers. August 3, 2. 00. 70. UT[q][3. 7]Mike Cameron.
GGSan Diego Padres. October 3. 1, 2. 00. OF[r][3. 9]Dan Serafini. Colorado Rockies. November 2. 7, 2.
P[s][4. 1]Jos. Г© Guill. Г©n. Kansas City Royals. December 6, 2. 00. OF[t][4. 3]Jay Gibbons. Baltimore Orioles.
December 6, 2. 00. OF[u][4. 5]Eli. Г©zer Alfonzo.
San Francisco Giants. April 3. 0, 2. 00. C[v][4. 6]J. C. Romero. Philadelphia Phillies. January 6, 2. 00. P[w][4. 8]Manny Ramirez.
SSLos Angeles Dodgers. May 7, 2. 00. 90. OF[x][5. 0]Edinson Volquez. Cincinnati Reds. April 2. P[y][5. 2]Manny Ramirez(2)SSTampa Bay Rays.
April 8, 2. 01. 11. OF[z][5. 3]Eli. Г©zer Alfonzo(2)Colorado Rockies.
September 1. 4, 2. A]C[5. 4]Guillermo Mota (2)San Francisco Giants. May 7, 2. 01. 21. P[5. 5]Freddy Galvis.
Philadelphia Phillies. June 1. 9, 2. 01. UT[aa][5. 6]Marlon Byrd. Free agent. June 2. OF[ab][5. 7]Melky Cabrera. San Francisco Giants.
August 1. 5, 2. 01. OF[ac][5. 8]Bartolo Colon.
Oakland Athletics. August 2. 2, 2. 01.
P[ad][5. 9]Yasmani Grandal. San Diego Padres. November 7, 2. 01. C[ae][6. 1]Carlos Ruiz. Philadelphia Phillies.
November 2. 7, 2. C[af][6. 2]Ryan Braun. SSMVPMilwaukee Brewers.
July 2. 2, 2. 01. Season(6. 5 games)OF[ag][6. Nelson Cruz. Texas Rangers. August 5, 2. 01. 30. OF[ah][6. 4]Jhonny Peralta. Detroit Tigers. August 5, 2.
SS[ai][6. 5]Everth Cabrera. San Diego Padres. August 5, 2. 01. 30. SS[6. 6]Antonio Bastardo.
Philadelphia Phillies. August 5, 2. 01. 30.
P[aj][6. 7]Francisco Cervelli. New York Yankees. August 5, 2. 01. 30. C[ak][6. 8]Alex Rodriguez. SSGGMVPNew York Yankees.
August 5, 2. 01. 32. B]3. B[al][7. 1]Miguel Tejada. SSMVPKansas City Royals.
August 1. 7, 2. 01. UT[am][7. 3]Troy Patton. Baltimore Orioles. December 2. 0, 2. P[an][7. 4]Cameron Maybin.
San Diego Padres. July 2. 3, 2. 01.
OF[ao][7. 5]Ervin Santana. Minnesota Twins. April 3, 2. P[ap][7. 6]Jenrry Mej. Гa. New York Mets. April 1. 1, 2. 01. P[aq][7. 7]Andrew Mc. Kirahan. Atlanta Braves.
April 2. 0, 2. 01. P[ar][7. 8]Jenrry Mej. Гa (2)New York Mets.
July 2. 8, 2. 01. P[7. 9]Cody Stanley. St. Louis Cardinals. September 1. 2, 2. C[8. 0]^Eli. Г©zer Alfonzo's 1.
Alex Rodriguez was initially suspended for 2. An arbitrator reduced his suspension to 1. Rodriguez missed the entire 2. After dropping his subsequent federal lawsuits, Rodriguez served the suspension and returned for the 2.
Players who had major league experience on minor league rosters[edit]Player. Team. Date announced.
Penalty. Position. Response. Ref. Troy Cate. Seattle Mariners. April 4, 2. 00. 50. P[8. 1]Willie Collazo.
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. April 4, 2. 00. 50. P[8. 1]Francisco CГіrdova. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. April 4, 2. 00. 50. P[8. 1]Jesus Guzman. Seattle Mariners.
April 4, 2. 00. 50. P[8. 1]Clay Hensley.
San Diego Padres. April 4, 2. 00. 50. P[8. 1]Robert Machado. Texas Rangers. April 4, 2.
C[8. 1]Damian Moss. Seattle Mariners. April 4, 2. 00. 50. P[8. 2]Brian Mallette(2)Pittsburgh Pirates.
April 6, 2. 00. 50. P[8. 3]Jon Nunnally. Pittsburgh Pirates. April 6, 2. 00. 50. OF[8. 3]Tom Evans.
Pittsburgh Pirates. April 6, 2. 00. 50. B[8. 3]Julius Matos. Toronto Blue Jays.
April 6, 2. 00. 50. UT[8. 4]Ricardo Rodr. Гguez. Atlanta Braves. April 2. 2, 2. 00. P[8. 5]Grant Roberts. New York Mets. April 2.
P[8. 6]Eider Torres. Cleveland Indians. April 2. 2, 2. 00.
B[8. 5]Randy Ruiz. Philadelphia Phillies. May 3, 2. 00. 50. B[8. 7]Darnell Mc.
Donald. Cleveland Indians. May 6, 2. 00. 50. OF[8. 5]Guillermo Rodr. Гguez. San Francisco Giants. May 1. 2, 2. 00. 50.
C[8. 5]Jonathan Herrera. Colorado Rockies. May 1. 2, 2. 00. 50. UT[8. 5]Steve Smyth. Oakland Athletics. May 1. 2, 2. 00. 50.
OF[8. 5]Jorge Toca. Chicago White Sox.
May 1. 2, 2. 00. 50. B[8. 5]Christian Parker. Colorado Rockies. May 1. 2, 2. 00. 50. P[8. 5]Luis Ugueto.
Kansas City Royals. May 1. 3, 2. 00. 50. UT[8. 5]Wilson Delgado. Florida Marlins. May 1. SS[8. 5]Ram. Гіn A. Castro(2)Washington Nationals. July 1, 2. 00. 51.
UT[8. 5]Josh Labandeira. Washington Nationals. July 1, 2. 00. 50.
SS[8. 5]Matt Whiteside. Toronto Blue Jays. July 1. 5, 2. 00. P[8. 5]Randy Ruiz (2)Philadelphia Phillies. July 2. 2, 2. 00.
B[8. 8]Wilson Delgado (2)Florida Marlins. August 1. 2, 2. 00. SS[8. 5]Luis Ugueto (2)Kansas City Royals.
August 1. 6, 2. 00. UT[8. 5]Ram. Гіn Ram. Гrez. Cincinnati Reds. April 1. 1, 2. 00.
P[8. 5]Nerio Rodr. Гguez. Pittsburgh Pirates.
May 1. 9, 2. 00. 60. P[8. 5]Abraham NГєГ±ez.
San Francisco Giants. May 2. 4, 2. 00. 60. OF[8. 5]Yamid Haad. San Francisco Giants. May 3. 1, 2. 00. 60.
C[8. 5]Daniel Mc. Cutchen. New York Yankees. August 8, 2. 00. 60. P[8. 9]Francisco Cruceta.
Texas Rangers. May 9, 2. P[9. 0]Lino Urdaneta. New York Mets. May 1.
P[9. 1]ГЃngel Salom. Г©Milwaukee Brewers.
July 2. 4, 2. 00. C[9. 2]Ryan Jorgensen. Cincinnati Reds. September 7, 2. C[9. 3]Luther Hackman. Texas Rangers. October 3. P[9. 4]Jordan Schafer. Atlanta Braves. April 8, 2.
OF[9. 5]Humberto Cota. Colorado Rockies.
May 2. 8, 2. 00. 80. C[9. 6]Jorge Sosa. Seattle Mariners. August 2. 1, 2. 00. P[9. 7]Runelvys Hern. ГЎndez. Houston Astros. September 6, 2. 00.
P[9. 8]Henry Owens. Florida Marlins. November 1. P[9. 9]Sergio Mitre. New York Yankees (failed test with Marlins)January 6, 2.
P[1. 00]Pablo Ozuna. Philadelphia Phillies. June 1. 1, 2. 00. UT[1. 01]Prentice Redman. Los Angeles Dodgers. June 2. 5, 2. 01. OF[1. 02]Pedro LГіpez.
Washington Nationals. July 2. 7, 2. 01. SS[1. 03]Prentice Redman(2)Los Angeles Dodgers. July 2. 7, 2. 01. OF[1. 03]Omar Quintanilla.
Colorado Rockies. August 1. 1, 2. 01. UT[1. 04]Matt Kinney. San Francisco Giants. August 2. 4, 2. 01. P[1. 05]Kevin Frandsen.
Philadelphia Phillies. May 1. 1, 2. 01. 10. B[1. 06]Daniel Mc. Cutchen(2)Baltimore Orioles.
April 6, 2. 01. 30. P[1. 07]Jordany Valdespin. New York Mets. August 5, 2. OF[as][1. 08]Jes. Гєs Montero. Seattle Mariners. August 5, 2. 01. 30.
C[at][1. 09]Sergio Escalona. Houston Astros. August 5, 2. P[au][1. 10]Fernando Mart.
Гnez. New York Yankees. August 5, 2. 01. 30.
OF[1. 11]ГЃlex Colom. Г©Tampa Bay Rays. March 2. 4, 2. 01. P[av][1. 12]Arodys Vizca. Гno. Atlanta Braves.
April 2, 2. 01. 50. P[aw][1. 13]Javy Guerra. Chicago White Sox. July 8, 2. 01. 50. P[ax][1. 14]Players with only minor- league experience or former MLB players[edit]Players with major league experience in a non- affiliated professional league[edit]Major league players' response[edit]^Alex SГЎnchez said this about his suspension: "I take some kind of stuff I buy over the counter.
Multi- vitamin, protein shakes, muscle relaxers, that kind of stuff. Over- the- counter stuff. Stuff to give me energy. I'm surprised because look at what kind of player I am.
I never hit any home runs. I don't know. It surprised me."[4]^Jorge Piedra said this about his suspension: "I am a little bit embarrassed that I put myself, my family and the Rockies in this situation, but it is what it is. I had taken some pills that I wouldn't have taken if I thought I would fail a test. People are going to think what they want. No need for me to go crazy about what everybody else thinks at this point."[6]^Agust. Гn Montero and the Major League Baseball Players' Association filed a grievance after his suspension, saying the penalty was "discipline without just cause."[7]^Though Jamal Strong did not comment, the Seattle Mariners issued a statement on the matter of drug use in their organization stating, "We are extremely disappointed with our players who have been suspended.
While we support those players, we also support the efforts of Major League Baseball to rid baseball of performing enhancing drugs."[9]^Juan Rinc. Гіn said this about his suspension: "Baseball is my life and I was devastated after becoming aware that I tested positive for a violation of Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. The details are confidential and I have asked the player's association to challenge the suspension.. What I can share with you today is that I would never knowingly compromise my position within Major League Baseball or jeopardize my relationship with the Minnesota Twins organization or the relationships that I enjoy with my teammates."[1.
Rafael Betancourt said this about his suspension: "I am very angry and disappointed with Major League Baseball's decision to suspend me. I am going to file a grievance to clear my name.