Baseball Quotes

How can a guy win a game if you don’t give him any runs? (after losing a game 15-0)

Yogi called the 1969 New York Mets: “Overwhelming underdogs.”

You can’t think and hit at the same time.

For a spring training drill, Yogi instructed his players to: “Pair off in threes”.

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up I change bats… After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

Monday, n.: In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.

True, there are differences between baseball and religion, no way around it. Religions have at least one god. Baseball only has demigods. Religions know the Truth. Baseball only has statistics. Still, nit-picking aside – they’re about the same. Baseball is religion without the mischief.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Amphetamines improved my performance about five percent. Unfortunately, in my particular case that wasn’t enough.

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.