I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.
A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.
A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.
The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
It actually giggles at you as it goes by.
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
I always get very calm with baseball.
Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.
He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.
He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
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