When I started to throw the ball back to the pitcher harder than he was throwing to me, we changed positions.
- Bert Blyleven on how he transformed fom a catcher into a pitcher
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- Earl Weaver
They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
- Willie Mays, on the secrets of his success
I only have trouble with fly balls.
- Outfielder Carmelo Martinez
There's a fly ball deep to center field. Winfield is going back, back....He hits his head against the wall. It's rolling toward second base.
- Broadcaster Jerry Coleman, leaving out a detail or two
TO CRITICIZE MIZE IS UNWISE; HIS BAT SUPPLIES HIS BEST REPLIES
- 1949 Headline about Johnny Mize
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.
- Woodie Held
Ruth had become simply impossible, and the Boston club could no longer put up with his eccentricities. I think the Yankees are taking a gamble.
- Red Sox owner Harry Frazee
Most one-run games are lost, not won.
- Gene Mauch
When you play this game 20 years, go to bat 10,000 times, and get 3,000 hits,
you know what that means? you've gone 0 for 7,000.
- Pete Rose
Yeah, me and Jorge went to see the movie 61* and
Jorge was
crying, not me!! I swear!!
- Derek Jeter
