Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Durocher

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Leo Durocher

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

Leo Durocher

Stick a fork in him. He's done.

Leo Durocher

As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

Leo Durocher

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

Leo Durocher

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

Leo Durocher

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Leo Durocher

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

Leo Durocher

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

Lauren Groff

I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.

Larry King

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

Lewis Carroll

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

Joseph Campbell

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

Juliana Hatfield

I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.

Juliana Hatfield

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

Judy Johnson

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

Paul Konerko

Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.

Paul Konerko

You get what you earn.

Paul Konerko

You have to know what you're doing and where you're going. For some guys, the answer is just keep doing what you're doing. For other guys, that might not be the case. It just depends on what kind you are.

Paul Konerko

We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.

Paul Dickson

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

Ozzie Guillen

I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system.

Ozzie Guillen

He (Buck Showaleter) never even smelled a jock in the big leagues. Mr. Baseball never even got a hit in Triple-A. I was a better player than him, I have more money than him and I'm better looking than him.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.

Jimmy Fallon

I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.

Jimmy Fallon

Thank you... adjustable baseball caps with no logo on the front and mesh netting in the back, for being a great way to say, 'Hi, I'm over 80 years old.'

Joel Osteen

Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.

Jimmy Piersall

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

Jim Thorpe

The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

Lou Piniella

I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career.

Lou Piniella

We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball.

Logan Marshall-Green

I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver.