Top 1200 Spring Training Quotes & Sayings

In spring training I'm in every newspaper (in Korea) every day. In the regular season, they watch it on TV.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

It's not a fun process. There is no need for the team and a player to be on opposing sides a week or two before spring training. It's good to be on the same page.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

I either do really well in spring training, or I suck. I either hit .350 or .150.

I approach spring training the same way every year.

Training is bad for you! Training followed by rest and proper nutrition is good for you and will make you better prepared for the event you are training for.

It is impossible to follow Cristiano Ronaldo in training. When we arrive, he is already training, when we leave he is still training, I have never seen a player like it.

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

I feel as good now as I have any other spring training.

None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get them interested. Wake them up and let them know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

Without training, I'm nothing. If I'm not training, I'm done. Any athlete, they have to train and they have to practice to win games. For sure. One hundred percent. You have to be training.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

You had to be strong in the head... training, training and training. That is the only way, even if you have big talent.

People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but do you think the federal government should have 163 different job-training programs?

I think the players set the tone right away in spring training.

Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.

I knew I was going to be a football player; I just didn't know how. It was the only thing I was doing, the only thing that I knew. Always training, training, training, training.

I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.

I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.

Just kind of finding it, that's what Spring Training is for, to work on stuff and get ready.

We don't just say this every spring training - 'Playoffs, World Series.' You've got to do it.

When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring training. But I couldn't keep my attention on the games for more than 30 minutes. I would sit there with my Game Boy the whole game.

Spring training is for getting to know your teammates and forming a chemistry. I dont like it.

People who say spring training's too long, I absolutely disagree. I think it's the perfect length of time.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

When I was in Europe maybe you are tired for all year - playing, training, training, training.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; and still to my Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer, Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; Spring, flower-planter in meadows, Child-conductor in willowy Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses: Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity: O child, happy are children!

It's hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don't know in the middle of the season. If you know a guy early in spring training, you're working with them.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

That's why, to me, Spring Training is so hard, because every time you go up there, there's a new pitcher, and you have to come up with a new plan.

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.

I first reported to our Marlins spring training complex in Jupiter as well as the other draft picks to receive physicals and to sign contracts. From there I flew to Jamestown, NY to play for the Jamestown Jammers.

Spring training is kind of my offseason. I'm preparing for the season, but the workload that I experience in spring is much lower than any other time of year. And so, I enjoy it.

Instead of going to spring training, I went to basic training.

Spring Training is a fun time for me.

In my day, if a guy came to spring training 20 pounds heavier than what he left, he was considered out of shape and was probably in trouble.

I do a lot of Olympic training to keep muscle density but it's hard because I ride on the shoulder seasons of spring and fall and maybe take a trip somewhere to ride in winter.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.

Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.

Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.

You're just trying to work on things in Spring Training, try to put the barrel on the ball and not peak too early.

Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness.

I'm usually rough during Spring Training. My Spring Training numbers aren't very good, but I never expect them to be.

Fighting for a job - that's been my mindset every Spring Training.

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.