Baseball Quotes

[brob28]

Joshua, that Lasorda quote is priceless!

[Peter_Spaeth]

Pete Rose -- I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

Reggie Jackson on Tom Seaver -- He's so good, blind people come to the park to hear him pitch.

Anonymous batter protesting after striking out looking on three pitches against Walter Johnson -- the third one sounded low.

Writer about Lefty Grove -- he was so fast he could throw a lambchop past a wolf.

Pitcher I don't remember about Hank Aaron -- trying to get a fastball by him is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Babe Ruth on justifying his higher salary than Herbert Hoover -- I had a better year than he did.

Willie Stargell on hitting against Sandy Koufax -- it was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

Sal Maglie on why he threw two consecutive pitches at a batter's head -- to show him the first one wasn't a mistake.

[Peter_Spaeth]

My favorite is probably John Updike explaining why Ted Williams did not come out of the dugout to acknowledge the cheering after homering after his last pitch -- Gods do not answer letters.

[veloce]

Roger Craig on catcher Choo-Choo Coleman's baseball smarts:

"Choo-Choo would give you the sign and then look down to see what it was."

[Peter_Spaeth]

Bob Gibson to Tim McCarver after McCarver told him after a game that there was a colored guy waiting to see him: What color is he?

[HRBAKER]

Bob Gibson to Tim McCarver upon his approach to the mound to talk to Gibson, "What are you doing out here? The only thing you know about pitching is you can't hit it!"

[HercDriver]

My favorite Mark Grace story:

One day Rick Sutcliffe gave up back-to-back home runs in Cincinnati. And in Cincinnati, they shoot off fireworks after a Red hits a home run. And Sutcliffe was pretty intense on the day he pitched. So Eric Davis takes him deep and Paul O'Neill takes him deep right after that. So Sutcliffe is all pissed off, and Billy Connors comes out to the mound and Sutcliffe yells at him, "I know I gave up f---ing back-to-back home runs and get your f---ing ass back in the dugout and tell Zimmer to f---ing settle down there, too."

Billy looks at him and says, "I know you have everything under control, Rick. I just wanted to give that guy running the fireworks a little time to reload."

Cheers,
Geno

[Peter_Spaeth]

Bob Gibson to a reporter after being asked why, as a BATTING PRACTICE pitcher for the Braves, he had dusted off a batter: He was crowding the plate.