Quotes about baseball
baseball play balls
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know. Mickey Mantle
baseball looks bruises
I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'
baseball heard
I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
baseball mean be-confident
Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.
baseball
Billy copied Casey to a 'T.'
baseball mad trying
There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.
baseball running home
This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
baseball men hey
Hey man! Get away from me!
baseball boys butchers
Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
baseball player guy
After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.
baseball play said
He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
baseball views
My views are just about the same as Casey's.
baseball mean hey
Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
baseball men guy
Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
baseball player roof
Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
baseball saws feats
It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
baseball careers looks
If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.
baseball natural ability
All I have is natural ability.
baseball way mickey
The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
baseball country
I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.
baseball lucky
Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
baseball army fighting
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
baseball play playing-baseball
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
baseball years careers
If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.
baseball doubt steps
His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
baseball fall hair
The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.
baseball men
No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.
baseball years play
He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.
baseball men earth
I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.
baseball coward quitter
I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.
baseball thank-god
Thank God for baseball.
baseball dad school
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
baseball fun whole-life
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.