What are your favorite Baseball quotes?

[howard38]

Warning: some rough language in the following clip



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzjWQF1oP2M

[Jerry G]

"Why does a hot dog always taste better with a ball game in front of it?"

Charlie Brown

[Forever Young]

"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
-Jimmy Dugan-

and of course a close second...

"Avoid the Clap,
Jimmy Dugan"

(Tom Hanks - A League Of Their Own as Jimmy Dugan)

[GKreindler]

I was always a fan of the latter...

[Kawika]

"Yeah. I know, and he can't hit in any of them."
— Dave Harris, Senators' outfielder, when told that teammate Moe Berg spoke seven languages

[Scott Garner]

Howard,
That Lasorda rant is absolutely the BEST! Thanks for that one- I laughed my ass off!

[John V]

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

- Casey Stengel

(I saw this in the Yankee exhibit at Cooperstown.)

[mr2686]

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. ~Joe Garagiola

[Forever Young]

Everything he says or has said is true..last several lines are great.
Maris is the man.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=482...d&bn_bnrank=2&

[KNH]

Throwing a fastball by Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Curt Simmons

These from Richie Ashburn:
"I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then."

"MVP on the worst team ever? I wonder what exactly they meant by that?"

"They (Phillies equipment guy fixing Dave Kingman's glove) should have called a welder."

[Wite3]

Somewhere I once read that during a slow game in Seattle, Dave Niehaus was describing the action in the stands when he notices a young couple kissing after every pitch...Niehaus remarks, "Isn't that nice. He is kissing her on the strikes and she is kissing him on the balls."

Joshua