Favorite Sports Quotes

[Harliduck]

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Trying to sneak a fastball by Hank Aaron was like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. (forget who said it)

I believe it was Bob Feller.

It was actually Joe Adcock....

[glenv]

In Toronto, Winfield was charged with cruelty to animals after a throw hit and killed a seagull. When asked about it, Billy Martin responded: "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man all season."

[Rickyy]

"I ain't goin' on no time machine." - Marvin "Bad News" Barnes - St Louis Spirits... upon being told that he needed to board a team flight scheduled to leave Louisville at 8 a.m. and land in St. Louis at 7:59 a.m.

[parker1b2]

"Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini, they both show a lot, but not everything" - Toby Harrah

[Cat]

"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 how you feel when Ryan's throwing balls by you."

Reggie Jackson

[JollyElm]

Talking about baseball:

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart."

A. Bartlett Giamatti

[peterose4hof]

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose. I believe in the letting the other guy lose.
Pete Rose

Nobody ever goes there anymore because it's too crowded.
Yogi Berra

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Lou Gehrig (I still get chills every time I hear this speech)

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Frank Sullivan, Red Sox pitcher when asked how he pitched to Mickey Mantle

"With tears in my eyes."

[detroitbaseball]

"Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life." - Ty Cobb

[barrysloate]

This one was credited to Ralph Kiner in his recent obituary:

One of the Mets' sponsors was American Cyanamid. As they were breaking for commercial, Ralph said: "And now a word from our sponsor, American Cyanide."

[packs]

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

- Joe D


Another favorite:

I gave my life to baseball and I'll only be remembered for something that never happened.

- Charlie Root 2 days before his death

[Clark7781]

From the Movie "Rudy":

"No one. And I mean NO ONE, comes into our house and pushes us around."

Not directly linked to an actual sports person, but sums up what my high school football coach said many times to us.

[CrazyDiamond]

Tom hanks in "A League of Thier Own" has one of my favorites pertaining to Baseball


"Its supposed to be hard, if it wasnt hard everyone would do it, the hard is what makes it great"

[tedzan]

Late afternoon, Oct 8th 1956, Yankee Stadium, an excited New York sports media surrounded Don Larsen baraging him with questions regarding his Perfect Game......

Larsen modestly responded...... "The Dodgers made it easy for me, I threw only 96 pitches"






TED Z

[MVSNYC]

I'm surprised there's not more from Yogi in this thread...

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoberra.shtml


I also like this one...i heard Johnny Bench say it in a recent interview, talking about how fun it was to play a boy's game, as a man...but i am sure he wasn't the first to say it...

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional."

[Buythatcard]

Some Casey Stengel quotes:

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.