What are your favorite Baseball quotes?

[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

[mayx2]

I'm in operation shutdown!

Derek Bell Pittsburgh Pirates.He left the team and Pirates had to eat like 7M.
No good POS



Lou

[iwantitiwinit]

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

My DAD

[Jantz]

"theres no crying in baseball"

Jimmy Dugan

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I hate using a Ruth quote (so overused), but nobody has mentioned it:

"I had a better season than he did."

[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!"


Much more than baseball advice.

[william_9]

Originally Posted by bigtrain

"I'm throwing the ball as hard as I ever did, it's just not getting there as fast." - Lefty Gomez

Bob Feller gave the same quote after starting the first inning of this year's Hall of Fame Classic.

[Robextend]

Connie Mack on Rube Waddell:

""He was the atom bomb of baseball long before the atom bomb was discovered..."