Top 1012 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Baseball Players - Page 6

Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.

As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves.

Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.

Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

One curve I'll always remember was when I was pitching for Pittsburgh. Terry Kennedy was a young player with St. Louis. I threw him an 0-2 curve and it snapped. Terry's reaction was to swing straight down, like he was chopping the plate with an axe. It was the last out of the inning. After I ran off the mound, I looked over at the St. Louis dugout. There were players rolling around on the floor, laughing. Poor Terry. I'll have to admit that was a hell of a curveball.

The spitter wasn't hard to hit when you knew a pitcher could throw it legally. But the guys to worry about were the pitchers who sneaked over the illegal spitter after the pitch was outlawed.

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience.

To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

Everywhere I go, people love me, so I'm just blessed. Do you blame them?

You've got to be smart to stay in this game. The quicker you learn, the quicker you succeed. You can't make the same mistakes over and over again.

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

I don't want last season to be as good as I get.

Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.

I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.

(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.

My experience over 17 years playing with the Yankees, these are a few of the things that I've learned. You've got to have a plan of action, You have to stay focused on the things you can control, and don't get discouraged or distracted by the things you cannot control.

You will never know your limitations until you find them.

Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.

Every time I walk out onto the field, I feel that I can be the best one in the game and that I can be a superstar.

I'm not as good as I want to be.

My philosophy has always been simple: Believe in yourself.

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Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.

Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

I'm very happy and excited to be a member of the Boston Red Sox.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

Puerto Rico lacks resources, but that's not the fault of the U.S.

Long Toss! Far and away themost important drill for strengthening my arm.

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.

Every kid's dream is to play for their hometown team, watching when you're younger and stuff like that. It's awesome to be able to be from Miami and play for the Marlins because I was at the stadium as a little kid watching the game.

Sometimes, with two strikes and two outs, I step off the mound. People are yelling, they're yelling really loud. I step off because I want to feel it. You've got all that adrenaline going, you've got that rush. People think I'm thinking about something, but I'm just trying to listen to everyone and feed off it.

I'll admit I said something I shouldn't have said.

My aspiration isn't to be some fashion photographer or anything. I think that's a space that's occupied by people that have a full-time commitment to the industry. You have to really be 100% invested to be successful in that industry.

I think my power comes from my hands.

The only thing you can trust in this world is money and your source of food.

As long as the team is pulling together, I’m happy to be a part of it.

In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

I have been trained to throw many, many pitches.

On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

I'm a Mormon. I don't do a lot of the off-the-field activities that athletes are known to do. And I guess I've created a world that is unlike the typical world of a professional athlete.

Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.

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When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'

I don't believe in curses, I think you make your own destination.

I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.

I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.

I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.

I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

College was really good for me. It's where I did my growing up, learning how to live on my own and to be myself. That really helped. I've eased my way into everything since then, so it doesn't feel too crazy. It's just about being the same person, whether good things come my way or bad things come my way, and to enjoy the opportunities I have.

Learn what pitch you can hit good; then wait for that pitch.

The minute you start getting in trouble, you can't try to do new stuff. You can't try to make a nasty pitch or 'paint the black' because that's when you fall behind. You have to stick with what works for you and go after hitters like there's nobody on base.

I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.