The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits. 300 looks back on the guy who batted. 295 and says 'tough luck buddy.
It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit.
Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.
The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.
Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
The National League is baseball to me.
Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!
I have always been a firm believer that the game has never belonged to the owners. It has never belonged to the ballplayers. It belongs to the guy who puts his money up on the window and says, 'How much does it cost to sit in the bleachers?' That is who owns baseball. And it has got to be kept that way.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.
I thought he had been shot.
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.