Favorite Sports Quotes

[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."

Bruce Ashman Cle Elum Athletics manager, about rotisserie-like rotation of coal miners/ballplayers on the lowest rung of organized baseball.

"We have three shifts; One coming, one going, and one losing."