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Quotes
You
look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You
think something wonderful is going to happen. --Joe DiMaggio on
Opening Day
Slump?
I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin'. --Yogi Berra
Baseball is
90% mental,the other half is phisical.--Yogi Berra
If I were playing
3rd base and my mother was rounding 3rd with the run that was going
to beat us,I'd trip her.Oh,I'd pick her up and brush her off and
say,Sorry Mom,but nobody beats me.--Leo Durocher
The hardest
thing to do in baseball is to hit a round ball with a round bat,squarly.--Ted
Williams
Trying to hit
Phil Niekro was like trying to eat Jell-O with chopsticks.--Bobby
Murcer
Why certainly
I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat,who
strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching,who throws
strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and
who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do
to baffle the other team.Any manager would want a guy like that
playing for him.The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup
of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things. --Danny
Murtaugh
Coaching third
with a pitcher on base is like beinga member of a bomb disposal
sqaud.The thing could blow up in your face at any moment.--Rocky
Bridges
The trouble
with having a wired jaw is that you can never tell when your sleepy.You
can't yawn.--Rocky Bridges
On Jose Gonzalez
changing his name to Jose Uribe:He was definitely the player to
be named later.--Rocky Briges
They can hollar
at the uniform all they want,but when they hollar at the man wearing
the uniform,ther're in trouble.--Umpire Joe Brinkman
Baseball players
are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball
team penalized for to mmany men on the field?-----Jim Bouton
If I stay healthy,
I have a chance to collect three thousand hits and one thousand
errors.-----George Brett, Kansas City Royals third basemen.
Show me a guy
who's afraid to look bad and I'll show you a guy you can beat every
time.-----St. Louis' Lou Brock
In high school
I took a little English, some science, some hubcaps, and some wheel
covers.-----William James Gates Brown (Detroit Tigers out fielder)
I can't conceive
of either team to win a single game.-----Warren Brown (Chicago writer),
when asked for a prediction as the outcome of the 1945 World Series
between the Cubs and the Tigers and an obvious reference to the
warmtime look of both teams.
It's a good
thing I stayed in Cincinnati for 4 years--It took me that long to
learn how to spell it.-----Rocky Bridges
I prefer fast
food-----Rocky Bridges, on why he won't eat snails.
I was thinking
of making a comeback until I pulled a muscle vacuuming-----Johnny
Bench, on how he felt about Charlton Fisk breaking his record for
career home runs by a catcher.
This is nothing.
I've got nine writers standing here. McGwire had 200 writers when
he had 30 home runs.-----Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants outfielder),
on being the first player to hit 400 home runs and steal 40 bases.
Thats why I
don't talk. Because I talk to much.-----Joquin Andujar
The pitcher
has only got a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons
is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting-----Hank
Aaron
You're only
young once, but you can be immature forever-----Larry Anderson relief
pitcher
Trying to sneak
a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past
a rooster-----Joe Adcock
When we played
softball I would steal 2nd base, fell guilty and go back.-----Woody
Allen
Life is like
a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, You gotta
be ready for the curve
If a man can
beat you, walk him.-----Leroy (Satchel) Paige
Hitting is
50% above the shoulders-----Ted Williams
I dont want
to be Babe Ruth.-----Roger Maris
There were
only 2 Bash Brothers (Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco), and one's
in Boston now. Maybe I can be a Bash Stepchild.-----Oakland's Scott
Brosius, who has 10 homers, after suggestions he's ready to become
a Bash Brother.
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