One of my favorites is by Rogers Hornsby when he was asked if he played golf. He said:
"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone someone else to go chase it."
Anyone else have a favorite?
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"Baseball been beddy beddy good to me." Chico Esquala (Garrett Morris, Saturday Night Live )
Beer Man!
are you AT thegame or IN the game
Just throw strikes! 
"Pitching is the art of instilling fear," Sandy Koufax.
"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided," Casey Stengel
"Talent always beats experience because by the time you get experience the talent is gone," Pat Corrales.
"I'd rather hit home runs, you don't have to run as hard," Dave Kingman.
"You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it," Leo Durocher.
"It ain't bragging if you can do it," Dizzy Dean.
"I don't want to get to know the other guys too well. I might like them and then I might not want to throw at them," Sal Maglie.
"The only way to prove you're a good sport is to lose," Ernie Banks.
...and for larrythompson,
"Throw strikes, home plate don't move," Satchel Paige.
...and a personal favorite,
"The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow," Manny Trillo.
"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided," Casey Stengel
"Talent always beats experience because by the time you get experience the talent is gone," Pat Corrales.
"I'd rather hit home runs, you don't have to run as hard," Dave Kingman.
"You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it," Leo Durocher.
"It ain't bragging if you can do it," Dizzy Dean.
"I don't want to get to know the other guys too well. I might like them and then I might not want to throw at them," Sal Maglie.
"The only way to prove you're a good sport is to lose," Ernie Banks.
...and for larrythompson,
"Throw strikes, home plate don't move," Satchel Paige.
...and a personal favorite,
"The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow," Manny Trillo.
"Aggressiveness plus enthusiasm equals hustle" - Pete Rose
"The best pitch looks like a strike, but isn't" - Warren Spahn
"Hitting is 50% above the shoulders" - Ted Williams
"You'd be surprsied how many shortcomings you overcome by hustle" - Pete Rose
"Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful too" - Branch Rickey
"Would I throw at my mother? Only if she was crowding the plate" - Early Wynn
And a few fun ones:
"If people don't want to come to the park, nobody is going to stop them" - Yogi Berra
"Swing hard in case they throw the ball where you're swinging" - Duke Snyder
"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes!" - Bob Uecker
"The best pitch looks like a strike, but isn't" - Warren Spahn
"Hitting is 50% above the shoulders" - Ted Williams
"You'd be surprsied how many shortcomings you overcome by hustle" - Pete Rose
"Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful too" - Branch Rickey
"Would I throw at my mother? Only if she was crowding the plate" - Early Wynn
And a few fun ones:
"If people don't want to come to the park, nobody is going to stop them" - Yogi Berra
"Swing hard in case they throw the ball where you're swinging" - Duke Snyder
"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes!" - Bob Uecker
My favorite:
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
Jim Bouton - 1970
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
Jim Bouton - 1970
quote:"Pitching is the art of instilling fear," Sandy Koufax.
To: Justbaseball,
Koufax was not a headhunter, and he didn't even truly back the guys off the plate. He instilled fear by the mear fact that the batter had to face him. He made them look ridiculous.
To my mind, he was the best I have seen.
My 2 favorites.....
About Baseball..
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone."
--A Bartlett Giamatti, Comissioner of Baseball, 1989.
About This time of year:
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." Rogers Hornsby, Hall of Famer
About Baseball..
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone."
--A Bartlett Giamatti, Comissioner of Baseball, 1989.
About This time of year:
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." Rogers Hornsby, Hall of Famer
Isnt really baseball related but......
When asked would he rather have his pizza cut into six or eight slices "better make it six, I dont think I can eat eight" Yogi Berra
"when you come to a fork in the road, take it" Yogi
When asked would he rather have his pizza cut into six or eight slices "better make it six, I dont think I can eat eight" Yogi Berra
"when you come to a fork in the road, take it" Yogi
"He threw the ball as far from the bat and as close to the plate as possible" Casey Stengel on Satchel Paige.