Top 1012 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Baseball Players - Page 3

I'm easily starstruck. Seeing Buster Posey or any actor, anyone at a restaurant, for me I get really starstruck, so just trying to calm myself down and say, "This is where I belong. This is what I've prepared my whole life to be doing."

I like hitting fourth and I like the good batting average. But what I do every day behind the plate is a lot more important because it touches so many more people and so many more aspects of the game.

I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.

I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.

I believed that doing what the other person wanted was love. I did that, and for more than a thousand years I have regretted it. I don't want to repeat the same mistake.

You can't do anything about yesterday and you can't do anything about tomorrow. It's just today.

Drinking is not a spectator sport.

I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

It's rewarding riding into the sunset. What better way to go? My teammates carried me off the field - it doesn't get any better than that. Now it's time to be a dad. To be as successful at that as I was at baseball would be nice.

Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s. It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society - and that's the young and the poor.

When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

I'm not going to change who I am just because people think it's weird.

I have been known on occasion to howl at the moon.

Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.

The best hitting advice I ever got was: Keep your eye clear and hit 'em where they ain't; that's all.

Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings

When we have an understanding that the Lord is all powerful, then we know that we need to trust Him each and every day. This understanding allows us to lay our worries in the Lord's hands. In return, we can focus everything that we do into glorifying Jesus.

I wanted to make a lot of good pitches.

When you can't pitch with your arm, you go with your heart.

I pitch like my hair is on fire.

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

We've been seeing some good things from Randy. We're starting to see that Randy Johnson attitude that we've been looking forward to seeing.

It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.

A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort.

Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again!

Concentrate on small segments of your race at a time. For example, rather than obsessing about the distance that remains, simply complete the next mile in good form...try another, then another, until the race is done.

I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.

Baseball is like this. Have one good year and you can fool them for five more, because for five more years they expect you to have another good one.

When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.

I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.

I'm the type of pitcher that definitely gets stronger and better adjusted to the batters as the season goes on.

The thing I like most about dogs is their absolute belief in their own innocence, even when they've been caught redhanded. No matter what they've been doing, every bad dog bears the same look when scolded: "What?"

I just play to win. I play to be competitive; that's it. I think every player hopes that they do something special that everyone remembers later in life, or whatever. But that's not why we're playing. At least, that's not why I play.

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.

What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.

Whenever I get into a tough situation...I think of growing up, and I say, 'This situation won't be the worst one I've ever been in.

You have to be more disciplined every day to get better and learn the game.

Everybody can have a bad game, and we did. These guys have all proven that they can handle adversity. We're in the midst of a little adversity.

The only thing I think about is getting ready for every five days, to go out and get ready for my team.

When you got a guy hanging over the cliff holding on with one hand, you don't want him to get his other hand up there, you want to go ahead and stomp on it

I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.

It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today.

I've never seen anyone go on the DL with pulled fat.

Greater is he who suffers through the pain and comes through the other side improved. Greater is he who accepts discouragement and keeps forward momentum, never retreating. Greater is he who sees the light at the end of the tunnel and keeps their eye on the light. Greater is he who gets knocked off his feet and gets back up, dusts himself off and gets back in the fight. Life is tough, but you are stronger.

The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride.

Complaining is like vomiting. You might feel better after you get it out, but you make everybody around you sick.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one.

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make history.

It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.

All I need is some cool bud and some tasty hanging change-ups, and I'm fine!

I may not get a hit, but you'll see me playing hard. You see my outs, they will be quality outs.

Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.