What are your favorite Baseball quotes?

[MVSNYC]

"Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."

-Terrance Mann (James Earl Jones), Field of Dreams

[roarfrom34]

"The only thing Earl Weaver knows about pitching is that he couldn't hit it"

Jim Palmer

[slidekellyslide]

Not really a quote, but a poem

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In our sundown 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.
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Walt Whitman

[brickyardkennedy]

Probably not entirely in the spirit of Jimmy's post, but I get a laugh out of Frenchy Bordagaray's response to a question regarding how he felt about his fine for spitting on an umpire:

"Well, it was more than I expectorated".

[drc]

Most anything from Yogi Berra.

"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing." -- Warren Spahn

"My job isn't to strike guys out, its to get them out, sometimes by striking them out." -- Tom Seaver

[Jantz]

"It is a haunted game in which every player is measured against the ghosts of all who have gone before"


Jantz

[bh3443]

" I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice."--- Casey Stengel

I read this above his minor league card in Heritage's Auction Books that came this morning and thought you'd enjoy it as much as I did!
Thanks,
Bill

[sox1903wschamp]

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?

Satchel Paige

[iwantitiwinit]

Stop uppercutting, stop turning your head, get your elbow up!!!!

My DAD

[Jantz]

"theres no crying in baseball"

Jimmy Dugan

[iwantitiwinit]

We finished last with you, we can finish last without you.

[Jim VB]

George Steinbrenner desk plaque



"Lead. Follow. Or get the hell out of my way!"


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