2,899 Quotes About Baseball

That boy Mantle is a good one.

He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

A professional baseball player, ... can drive a Mack truck through the loopholes in the current anti-doping program being administered.

To know the whole country's watching you, it's going to be a great experience. Baseball in Mexico is not as big as soccer, but people love it, especially in the northern part of (the country).