What are your favorite Baseball quotes?

[thekingofclout]

Here are some of mine...

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America, had better learn Baseball”

Jacques Barzun


The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

Lawrence Ritter


"Nothing is more limited, than being a limited partner of George Steinbrenner."

Limited partner of the Yankees, John McMullen.


You 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


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


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.

Bill Veeck


You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Leo Durocher


Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Red Smith


The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash.

Jim Murray

[Rob D.]

A few of us understand the beauty of these Old Mill red border Bluegrass League cards, and most of the folks could care less.

-- Frank Wakefield

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

"I'll sign anything but a veal cutlet. My ballpoint pen slips on a veal cutlet."

--Casey Stengel

"Our similarities are different."

--Dale Berra, on being compared to his father

"Ken Griffey's grotesquely swollen jaw. Steve Sax and his run-in with the law."

--Terry Cashman

[thekingofclout]

I even kind of dedicated it to you and Oldtix (Rick). Just a few replies as of yet. This might be it for me...no more starting threads for small market teams. Come on Ohio! It's not like the thread was entitled:

If it's Baseball, and it's from Florida, let's see it!

I mean, the Reds. First pro team, Big Red Machine. History coming out the can!

The Tribe... umm, uh, umm, compared to the Cubbies they look like perennial champs.

I don't get it. Maybe I'll ask Leon to just lock the thread, and I learn from my mistake and go on from there.

[David Atkatz]

"The only real game in the world, I think, is baseball."

Babe Ruth

[MVSNYC]

"Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. 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 of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."

-Terrance Mann (James Earl Jones), Field of Dreams

[roarfrom34]

"The only thing Earl Weaver knows about pitching is that he couldn't hit it"

Jim Palmer

[springpin]

"He hits three ways: left, right, and seldom."

[Scouting report on a Cubs pitcher]

[mr2686]

A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart

[thekingofclout]

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? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. ~Nomar Garciaparra

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[howard38]

Warning: some rough language in the following clip



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzjWQF1oP2M

[Jerry G]

"Why does a hot dog always taste better with a ball game in front of it?"

Charlie Brown

[Scott Garner]

Howard,
That Lasorda rant is absolutely the BEST! Thanks for that one- I laughed my ass off!