Great Baseball Quotes

[cvillecat]

Here are a few more by earl weaver and then I'll let someone else have the podium...

 

"A manager's job is simple, for 162 games try and not screw up all that smart stuff your organization did in December?.

 

"It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts".

 

"This ain't a football game, we do this everyday?.

 

One more by Jim Palmer.... "The only thing Earl Weaver knows about big league pitching is that he could never hit it".

[oldrambler]

Not really, it's pretty simple actually. They still played the same old amateur teams....they were just paid to do so.

Picky, Picky..............

[oldrambler]

Probably the most simple quote in all of baseball.....

 

"See the ball, hit the ball".

 

We can't leave out Doggy when it comes to baseball.

:thumb: :thumb: Most simple and the best advice anyone could give hitter, that explains it all.

[oldrambler]

"All that I know is that when I pass someone on the street now, they don't know whether to say hello or goodbye."..................... Billy Martin

[oldrambler]

I would walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. .................Pete Rose

[oldrambler]

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose. I believe in letting the other guy lose................................Pete Rose

[oldrambler]

When you play this game 20 years, go to bat 10,000 times and get 3,000 hits .....do you know what that means? It means that you have gone 0 for 7,000. .....................................Pete Rose.

[YankeeFan22]

"I cannot get rid of the hurt from losing, but after the last out of every loss, I must accept that there will be a tomorrow. In fact, it's more than there'll be a tomorrow, it's that I want there to be a tomorrow. That's the big difference, I want tomorrow to come."

-Sparky Anderson

Thats deep Sparky.

[YankeeFan22]

"I can't believe they pay us to play baseball - something we did for free as kids."

-Sparky Anderson

 

Some ball players today need to read this. (A-Rod)

[The Professor]

"He couldn't have hit that pitch with a bed slat."

 

 

Bob Prince, former Pirates radio man.

[Booge]

He has another that I LOVE: "I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball."

 

 

Then put the gasoline suit on ebay...

[Booge]

My favorite quotes are by Casey Stengel...

 

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

 

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

 

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

 

I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

 

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

 

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

 

Look at him (Bobby Richardson) - he doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't chew, he doesn't stay out late, and he still can't hit .250.

 

and many more...