I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. (Quote by - Sandy Koufa)

All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.' (Quote by - Mickey Lolich)

I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week. (Quote by - Hank Aaron)

A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined. (Quote by - Paul Blair)

Baseball is almost the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. (Quote by - Mark Beltaire)

There's one word that describes baseball - You never know. (Quote by - Joquin Andujar)

A baseball manager is a necessary evil. (Quote by - Sparky Anderson)

I can sit in a ballpark after a game and love looking at the field. Everybody's gone, and the ballpark is empty, and I'll sit there. I sit there and think, 'Is this as close to heaven as I'm going to get?' Or, 'If I get to heaven, will there be baseball? (Quote by - Kim Braatz-Voisard)

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. (Quote by - Robert Frost)

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. (Quote by - George Carlin)

My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose. (Quote by - Greg Maddux)

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. (Quote by - Bill Veeck)

Hello again, everybody. It's a bee-yooo-tiful day for baseball. (Quote by - Harry Caray)

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round. (Quote by - Gaylord Perry)

A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. (Quote by - Humphrey Bogart)

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. (Quote by - Charlie Lau)

Expansion's coming up (in 1998), pitching is thin and I'm left-handed. (Quote by - Tom Browning)

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game. (Quote by - Jacques Barzun)

Like those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there. (Quote by - Ray Miller)

This is a tough park for a hitter when the air conditioning is blowing in. (Quote by - Bob Boone)

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power (Quote by - Leo Durocher)

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

He's such a big, strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone. (Quote by - Sparky Anderson)

You know yo re pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. (Quote by - Duke Snider)

A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more. (Quote by - Arthur Daley)