Morrillo Baseball Quotes

#1. General manager Frank Lane made his mark on the club by making several unpopular or unsuccessful trades. Among the guys he traded to other teams are Rocky Colavito, Roger Maris, Norm Cash, and ... manager Joe Gordon? Uh, yes. Lane and Detroit GM Bill DeWitt traded managers - Joe Gordon for Jimmy Dykes. Lane's tenure ended shortly thereafter, long before the damage he caused. #Quote by Tucker Elliot

#2. Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero. #Quote by Edward Abbey

#3. His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread. #Quote by Tom Hayden

#4. Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew. #Quote by Mickey Mantle

#5. These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up. #Quote by Dave Winfield

#6. The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. #Quote by Greg Maddux

#7. As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day. #Quote by Kevin James

#8. Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man. #Quote by W.P. Kinsella

#9. I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME. #Quote by Herbert Hoover

#10. Here's the thing about baseball-it's not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that.
Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter's box like a soldier and it's up to him-and him alone-what happens next.
But here's the thing I didn't understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run ...
Someone else has to pitch the ball. #Quote by Barry Lyga

#11. It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball. #Quote by Rickey Henderson

#12. The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I have no idea what that is. #Quote by Luis Polonia

#13. The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record. #Quote by Mickey Mantle

#14. Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here. #Quote by Tom Glavine

#15. Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. #Quote by Casey Stengel

#16. Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball. #Quote by Roger Angell

#17. Wake up muscles we're in New York now. #Quote by Casey Stengel

#18. Everyone playing in the major leagues today owes a debt of gratitude to Mark Fidrych. He brought baseball back to the people. He made it popular again. He helped save the game." - Willie Horton #Quote by Doug Wilson

#19. Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion. #Quote by Bill Klem

#20. Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are. #Quote by Mike Barnicle

#21. One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise. #Quote by Enos Slaughter

#22. They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them. #Quote by Casey Stengel

#23. If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball. #Quote by Pee Wee Reese

#24. My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. #Quote by Willie Stargell

#25. Some well-meaning folks think if we stop talking about racism, it'll magically disappear, like the smell of an errant fart. But like a fart, people might try to be polite and ignore it, but everyone knows it's there. Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going wrong only makes matters worse. It's like someone breaks your arm, and the person who slammed the baseball bat into it is saying, 'The only reason it won't heal is because you keep complaining that it hurts.' How about you get me a cast so the bone can set straight again? America does not want to put the effort into providing this cast. This is why we must talk about race, and we must do it openly. #Quote by Luvvie Ajayi

#26. I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out. #Quote by Bo Jackson

#27. The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold. #Quote by Derek Jeter

#28. I couldn't have done it without my players. #Quote by Casey Stengel

#29. I used to go to the comic store all the time. I was into comic cards, which are essentially baseball cards for comic book heroes. They have these cool stats on the back. I had collections of these things. I still have a lot of my collection at home. #Quote by Brett Dalton

#30. You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into this private school? Can I get this girl to go out with me Saturday night? Am I going to get the promotion in my office?" All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it's completely meaningless. #Quote by Woody Allen

#31. I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.' #Quote by Joe Garagiola

#32. Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field. #Quote by Vida Blue

#33. A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. #Quote by Johnny Bench

#34. If sex were baseball, I was still on the bench. The only action my bases had seen was courtesy of my own curious hands, and even then, I'd never achieved a homerun. #Quote by Leisa Rayven

#35. Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none. #Quote by Jerry Coleman

#36. I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell. #Quote by Michael Cera

#37. Why should I mind?" She drummed her fingertips against his knee. "Because you got asked to play baseball, while I got a lecture on circumspection, Jezebels, and leading men into sin?"
"Did you really?" He managed to sound annoyed, fascinated, and amused all at once.
"It's not funny."
"Of course it's not." He was quick to try and placate her. "But we can do something about those lectures real quick. All you have to do is marry me."
Coyote Bluff had too many secrets that weren't hers to share. She couldn't put him in that position. He was a federal marshal. And she'd seen what all the lies her father told had done to her mother. She'd died hating him.
The last remnants of her earlier contentment vanished. "I like my independence."
"Then I guess you'll have to get used to the lectures, Sheriff Jezebel," he replied. #Quote by Paula Altenburg

#38. I felt I was duty-bound under contract to stick with Cleveland, and I can truthfully say, in all my playing days there and everywhere, I never shirked a duty to baseball. #Quote by Joe

#39. I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend. #Quote by Deion Sanders