Baseball Quotes

[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

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by 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

I've never heard that one but it is classic!

[Sean]

Reggie Jackson, explaining the importance of hitting well if you play 1st base, 3rd base, right or left field:
"If you want to stand on the corner, you have to lean on the pole."

[Cardboard Junkie]

Another from Yogi..."Swing at the strikes".

[uffda51]

More Choo Choo - Ralph Kiner interviewed Choo Choo Coleman in 1962, and asked, “What’s your wife’s name, and what’s she like?” Coleman replied, “Her name is Mrs. Coleman — and she likes me."

[Peter_Spaeth]

Chico Escuela -- Baseball been berry berry good to me.

[the 'stache]

Yogi Berra "Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical."

Ernie Banks "Let's play two".

[earlywynnfan]

I agree, anything Bob Uecker says makes me fall on the floor.

Nobody brought up the Krukker? "I'm not an athlete, Ma'am, I'm a baseball player."

Ken

[Nashvol]

As related by former Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jerry Bell, walking from the mound to the dugout upon being relieved after walking Harmon Killebrew:

Bell: "Ump, that last pitch to Killebrew looked like a strike to me."

Umpire: "Son, Mr. Killebrew will let you know when it's a strike."

[botn]

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." - Jackie Robinson

[rdwyer]

Tom Hanks: There's no crying in baseball.

[digdugdig]

Mike Flanagan - "I never could play in New York. The first time I ever came into a game there, I got into the bullpen car and they told me to lock the doors."
"You know you're having a bad game when the ground crew goes out and drags the warning track."

Claude Osteen - "I'm not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down."

Hank Aaron - "It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon at the golf course."

Richie Ashburn (on playing the '62 Mets) "I don't know what's going on, but I know I've never seen it before."

Early Wynn - "The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is breathe on a mirror and hope it fogs."

Mickey Lolich - "All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See? There's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer'."

Johnny Pesky - "When you win, you eat better, sleep better, and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollabrigida."

Stan Hack (his home town) - "It's so small, we don't even have a town drunk, everybody has to take a turn."