Baseball Quotes

[mets41]

Sparky Anderson in his HOF induction speach: "Baseball is a great game and if you don't like it GET OUT."

[jb217676]

"You can't hit what you can't see." – Walter Johnson

[gavvy]

Manager concerned over Hack Wilson's heavy drinking.

"When I put a worm in a glass of water nothing happens to it. But when I put it in a glass of whiskey it dies. What does that tell you?"

Hack's response: "That I'll never get worms from drinking whiskey."

[slidekellyslide]

"In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball...Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms...the game of ball is glorious."

Walt Whitman 1846

[wolf441]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

"In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball...Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms...the game of ball is glorious."

Walt Whitman 1846

+1. Love it! The beginning to Ken Burns Baseball - First Inning. Whenever I've had a stressful day at work, I throw that DVD in and it always relaxes me!!

"Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter." Satchel Paige

[nolemmings]

A young woman commented to Yogi Berra on a sweltering day "Yogi, you look pretty cool out there", to which he responded "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself".